Experience with seven cases of massive splenomegaly

Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques - Part A

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 197-200

  Choy, Charles ^a   Cacchione, Robert ^a   Moon, Victor ^a   Ferzli, George ^a,b  

^a STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAEMOPHILUS VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ACCESSORY SPLEEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLEEN WEIGHT; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; STAPLER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TROCAR;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 4344710132     PISSN: 10926429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lap.2004.14.197     Document Type: Article

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