Laparoscopic splenectomy in patients with normal-sized spleens versus splenomegaly: Does size matter?

American Surgeon

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 854-857

  Heniford, B Todd ^a   Park, Adrian ^b   Walsh, R Matthew ^a   Kercher, Kent W ^a   Matthews, Brent D ^a   Frenette, Gary ^a   Sing, Ronald F ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 0035458908     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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