Management of complicated umbilical hernias in patients with end-stage liver disease and refractory ascites

Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 679-682

  Fagan, Shawn P ^a   Awad, Samir S ^a   Berger, David H ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UMBILICAL HERNIA; AGED; ASCITES; GANGRENE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RUPTURE; SKIN;

AGED; ASCITES; GANGRENE; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042580938     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2003.12.010     Document Type: Article

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