Management of splenic artery aneurysms: The significance of portal and essential hypertension

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 189, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 483-490

  Lee, Paul C ^a   Rhee, Robert Y ^a   Gordon, Ram Y ^a   Fung, John J ^a   Webster, Marshall W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJURY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIPARA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPLENIC ARTERY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032726435     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(99)00168-4     Document Type: Article

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