Laparoscopic splenectomy: What barriers remain?

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-29

  Weiss III, Carl A ^a   Kavic, Stephen M ^b   Adrales, Gina L ^c   Park, Adrian E ^b  

^a University Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 18144371206     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155335060501200104     Document Type: Article

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