Laparoscopic splenectomy: Present status and future perspective

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-104

  Bellows, Charles F ^a   Sweeney, John F ^a  

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

Author keywords

Hematologic disease; Laparoscopic splenectomy; New technology

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SPLEEN; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BENIGN TUMOR; BLEEDING DISORDER; CANCER PATIENT; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEARNING; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; META ANALYSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OBESITY; OPTICS; PATIENT CARE; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SIMULATOR; SKILL; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN BLOOD FLOW; SPLEEN CYST; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TRAINING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; FORECASTING; LAPAROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 33644836550     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.3.1.95     Document Type: Review

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