Persistent hypersplenism early after liver transplant: The role of splenectomy

Transplantation

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1481-1483

  Altaca, Gulum ^a   Scigliano, Eileen ^a   Guy, Stephen R ^a   Sheiner, Patricia A ^a   Reich, David J ^a   Schwartz, Myron E ^a   Miller, Charles M ^a   Emre, Sukru ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0030831120     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199711270-00020     Document Type: Article

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