Injection of fibrin glue for temporary treatment of an ascites leak from a ruptured umbilical hernia in a patient with liver cirrhosis

Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 574-

  Sadik, Karim W ^a   Bonatti, Hugo ^a   Schmitt, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; FUROSEMIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; ASCITES; BILE LEAKAGE; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HEPATITIS C; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

ASCITES; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TISSUE ADHESIVES; ULCER;

EID: 40949145239     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2007.12.005     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

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