A new surgical strategy for cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and hypersplenism: Performing a hepatectomy after a laparoscopic splenectomy

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-130

  Shimada, M ^a   Hashizume, M ^a   Shirabe, K ^a   Takenaka, K ^a   Sugimachi, K ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hepatectomy; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Hypersplenism; Laparoscopic splenectomy; Liver

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMMONIA; BILIRUBIN; INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 0033961098     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004649900082     Document Type: Article

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