Laparoscopic splenectomy for immune thrombocytopenic purpura in patients with severe refractory thrombocytopenia

Pathophysiology of Haemostasis and Thrombosis

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 116-119

  Keidar, Andrei ^a   Sagi, Boaz ^a   Szold, Amir ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Immune thrombocytopenic purpura; Laparoscopy; Splenectomy; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFECTION; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344062601     PISSN: 14248832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073856     Document Type: Article

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