Is splenectomy after trauma an endangered species?

American Surgeon

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 410-412

  Harbrecht, Brian G ^a   Franklin, Glen A ^a   Miller, Frank B ^a   Richardson, J David ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLON SURGERY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DATA BASE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLEEN TUMOR; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; BLOOD DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON RESECTION; COLON TUMOR; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITAL CHARGE; INJURY; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TUMOR; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SPLEEN; STATISTICS; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; STOMACH TUMOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FUNDOPLICATION; GASTRECTOMY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 44649130756     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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