Spleen Volume and Platelet Number Changes after Living Donor Liver Transplantation in Adults

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 55, 2004, Pages 262-263

  Kaneko, Junichi ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Akamatsu, Nobuhisa ^a   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Spleen; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 10744226076     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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