Effect of Splenectomy on Morbidity and Survival Following Curative Gastrectomy for Carcinoma

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 359-364

  Brady, Mary Susan ^a   Rogatko, Andre ^a   Dent, L Leon ^a   Shiu, Man H ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0026030233     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1991.01410270105017     Document Type: Article

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