Surgical complications requiring early relaparotomy after pancreas transplantation: A multivariate risk factor and economic impact analysis of the cyclosporine era

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 255-268

  Troppmann, C ^a   Gruessner, A C ^a   Dunn, D L ^a   Sutherland, D E R ^a   Gruessner, Rainer W G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031885343     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199802000-00016     Document Type: Article

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