Spontaneous splenic rupture after a left-side thoracotomy: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 636-638

  Klotz, Stefan ^a   Semik, Michael ^a   Senninger, Norbert ^a   Berendes, Elmar ^a   Scheld, Hans H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lung surgery; Spontaneous splenic rupture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HAMARTOMA; HEMATOMA; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MELANOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENIC RUPTURE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0042703467     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2535-1     Document Type: Article

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