Accessory splenectomy with gastroesophageal devascularization for recurrent hypersplenism and refractory bleeding varices in a patient with liver cirrhosis: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1044-1048

  Mishin, Igor ^a,b   Ghidirim, Gheorghe ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY NICOLAE TESTEMITANU   (Moldova)

^b NONE   (Moldova)

Author keywords

Accessory spleen; Accessory splenectomy; Esophageal varices; Portal hypertension; Recurrent hypersplenism

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ACCESSORY SPLEEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVASCULARIZATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL DEVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VARICOSIS;

ADULT; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12144282250     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2837-y     Document Type: Article

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