Laparoscopic splenectomy in patients with hematologic diseases

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-28

  Flowers, John L ^a   Lefor, Alan T ^a   Steers, John ^a   Heyman, Meyer ^a   Graham, Scott M ^a   Imbembo, Anthony L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOPERITONEUM, ARTIFICIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL STAPLERS;

EID: 0029935988     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199607000-00004     Document Type: Article

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