Post traumatic intra thoracic spleen presenting with upper GI bleed! - A case report

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hariharan, Deepak ^a   Singhal, Rishi ^b   Kinra, Sonali ^c   Chilton, Andrew ^c  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c KETTERING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMATEMESIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MELENA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; RESUSCITATION; SPLENIC VEIN; SPLENOMEGALY; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH VARICES; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; DIAPHRAGM; GASTRIC FUNDUS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HERNIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LACERATIONS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SPLENIC DISEASES; SPLENIC VEIN; THORAX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 33845604038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-6-38     Document Type: Article

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