Radiofrequency-assisted partial splenectomy: Histopathological and immunological assessment of the splenic remnant in a porcine model

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1309-1316

  Zacharoulis, Dimitris ^a,b   Poultsidis, Antigoni ^a   Katsogridakis, Emmanuel ^a   Kalala, Fani ^a   Nakou, Marianna ^a   Chatzitheofilou, Constantine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Healing; Partial splenectomy; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROSIS; FUNCTION TEST; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; THERMAL INJURY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CATHETER ABLATION; INFLAMMATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SWINE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 43049100391     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9617-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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