Laparoscopic splenectomy: Outcome and efficacy in 103 consecutive patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 568-578

  Katkhouda, Namir ^a   Hurwitz, Michael B ^a   Rivera, Raymond T ^a   Chandra, Mudjianto ^a   Waldrep, Donald J ^a   Gugenheim, Jean ^b   Mouiel, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 0032470708     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199810000-00013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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