Simultaneous rupture of the liver and spleen in a patient on warfarin therapy: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 252-255

  Kapan, Metin ^a,b   Kapan, Selin ^a   Karabicak, Ilhan ^a   Bavunoglu, Isil ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Liver; Rupture; Spleen; Warfarin therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CASE REPORT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEMATOMA; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER RUPTURE; MALE; PATIENT; PERITONEAL CAVITY; RESUSCITATION; SEROLOGY; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WARFARIN;

EID: 17044435522     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2898-y     Document Type: Article

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