Surgical aspects of splenic disease and lymphoma

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 553-646

  Coon, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; INJURY; LYMPHOMA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; RUPTURE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SPLEEN; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REFERENCE VALUES; RUPTURE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0032118706     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0011-3840(98)80011-7     Document Type: Article

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