Fatal and life threatening rupture of splenic artery aneurysms in children with portal hypertension

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 192-195

  Evans, Helen M ^a   Sharif, Khalid ^a   Brown, Rachel M ^a   Platt, Craig ^b   Crisp, William J ^b   Kelly, Deirdre A ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic liver disease; Cirrhosis; Paediatric liver transplantation; Portal hypertension; Splenic artery aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SPLEEN ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTOENTEROSTOMY, HEPATIC; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENIC ARTERY;

EID: 1942519279     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1399-3046.2003.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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