Splenectomy for hypersplenism caused by adult T-cell leukemia: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1148-1151

  Endo, Yuichi ^a   Ohta, Masayuki ^a   Shibata, Kohei ^a   Kai, Seiichiro ^a   Iwaki, Kentaro ^a   Uchida, Hiroki ^a   Ogata, Masao ^a   Ikewaki, Junji ^a   Kashima, Kenji ^a   Kitano, Seigo ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult T cell leukemia; Hypersplenism; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; PIRARUBICIN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; PREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERSPLENISM; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; T CELL LEUKEMIA; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA, ADULT T-CELL; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 57049161549     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3802-y     Document Type: Article

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