Severe thrombocytopenia due to hypersplenism successfully treated with partial splenic embolization in preoperative management

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 481-483

  Pinto, Amor G ^a   Namyslowski, Jan ^a   Pandya, Prashant ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b D2005 OPW ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS 32;

ADULT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN INFARCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 17244367883     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000157558.62378.0B     Document Type: Article

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