Abdominal operations in patients with cirrhosis: Still a major surgical challenge

Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 730-736

  Mansour, Ashraf ^a,b   Watson, William ^a   Shayani, Vafa ^a   Pickleman, Jack ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL RISK;

EID: 0030776838     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(97)90080-5     Document Type: Article

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