Massive Splenomegaly Is Associated with Significant Morbidity after Laparoscopic Splenectomy

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 235-240

  Patel, Ameet G ^a   Parker, Jane E ^a   Wallwork, Ben ^b   Kau, Keith B ^b   Donaldson, Nora ^a   Rhodes, Michael R ^c   O'Rourke, Nicholas ^b   Nathanson, Les ^b   Fielding, George ^b  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN WEIGHT; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; CHILD; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0042914830     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200308000-00012     Document Type: Article

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