Hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy for splenic vascular tumors: Report of two cases

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 286-289

  Yano, Hiroshi ^a   Imasato, Mitsunobu ^a   Monden, Takushi ^a   Okamoto, Shigeru ^a  

^a OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hand assisted laparoscopic splenectomy; Littoral cell angioma; Splenic vascular tumor; Venous hemangioma

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC SPLENECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LITTORAL CELL ANGIOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY CYST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; SEMINOMA; SPLEEN SCINTISCANNING; SPLEEN TUMOR; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VASCULAR TUMOR; VENOUS HEMANGIOMA;

EID: 0042817863     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129689-200308000-00014     Document Type: Article

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