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Fentanyl reduces cortisol and blood glucose changes during cataract surgery under retrobulbar anaesthesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2005

R. G. Sivaci
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Kocatepe University, Afyon, Turkey
S. Ermıs
Affiliation:
Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Kocatepe University, Afyon, Turkey
F. Öztürk
Affiliation:
Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Kocatepe University, Afyon, Turkey
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Abstract

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2005 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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Footnotes

Presented as a poster at the XIXth Congress of the ESCRS, 3–7 September 2001, Amsterdam.

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