Staged laparoscopic splenectomy and valve replacement in splenic abscess and infective endocarditis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1635-1637

  Simsir, Sinan A ^b   Cheeseman, Sarah H ^b   Lancey, Robert A ^b   Vander Salm, Thomas J ^b   Gammie, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; NAFCILLIN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATIGUE; FEVER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLENECTOMY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; SYMPTOM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ABSCESS; ADULT; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; LAPAROSCOPY; SPLEEN DISEASE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 0242380292     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04769-0     Document Type: Article

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