A rare complication following liver transplantation

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1128-1131

  Raghavan, Ravi ^a   Alley, Sayed ^a   Tawfik, Ossama ^a,b   Webb, Patricia ^a   Forster, Jameson ^a   Uhl, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Splenic peliosis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; FERROUS SULFATE; FUROSEMIDE; LANSOPRAZOLE; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; METOLAZONE; PREDNISONE; RANITIDINE; SERTRALINE; SPIRONOLACTONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PANCREAS FISTULA; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; BIOPSY; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SPLEEN;

BIOPSY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PURPURA; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES; SPLENIC RUPTURE;

EID: 0033143449     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026663821099     Document Type: Article

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