A Simple Mathematical Approach to Calculate Blood Loss in Radical Prostatectomy

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-139

  Hurle, Rodolfo ^a   Poma, Rossana ^c   Maffezzini, Massimo ^b   Manzetti, Alberto ^a   Piccinelli, Alessandro ^a   Taverna, Gianluigi ^b   Bellavita, Piermario ^c   Graziotti, Pierpaolo ^b  

^a Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital   (Italy)

^b Istituti Clinici Humanitas   (Italy)

^c OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood loss; Blood transfusion; Prostatectomy, radical

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1242284249     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075967     Document Type: Article

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