Case reports: Splenic rupture after anterior thoracolumbar spinal fusion through a thoracoabdominal approach

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2271-2275

  Heyworth, Benton E ^a   Schwab, Joseph H ^a   Boachie Adjei, Oheneba B ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; LAPAROTOMY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTOR; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENIC HEMORRHAGE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOABDOMINAL APPROACH; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; HEMATOMA; KYPHOSIS; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FUSION; SPLENECTOMY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 50649084337     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-008-0318-0     Document Type: Article

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