Leukocytosis after posttraumatic splenectomy: A physiologic event or sign of sepsis?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 924-929

  Toutouzas, Konstantinos G ^a,b   Velmahos, George C ^a,b   Kaminski, Anna ^a,b   Chan, Linda ^a,b   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036330040     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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