Does open surgery continue to have a role in elective splenectomy?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1094-1098

  Boddy, A P ^a   Mahon, D ^a   Rhodes, M ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elective splenectomy; Laparoscopic splenectomy; Splenomegaly

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SURGEON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 33746103657     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0523-9     Document Type: Article

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