Handheld gamma probe used to detect accessory spleens during initial laparoscopic splenectomies

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-119

  Barbaros, Umut ^a   Dinççaǧ, Ahmet ^a   Erbil, Yesim ^a   Mercan, Selcuk ^a   Sanli, Yasemin ^a   Adalet, Işik ^a   Küçükkaya, Reyhan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accessory spleen; Gamma probe; Laparoscopic splenectomy

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SPLEEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEUM; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, SURGICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845677569     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-006-0001-z     Document Type: Article

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