The feasibility and effectiveness of a hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy for hypersplenism in patients after living-donor liver transplantation

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 484-487

  Uehara, Hideo ^a   Kawanaka, Hirofumi ^a   Akahoshi, Tomohiko ^a   Tomikawa, Morimasa ^a   Kinjo, Nao ^a   Hashimoto, Naotaka ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Soejima, Yuuji ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hand assisted laparoscopic splenectomy; Hypersplenism; Living donor liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC SPLENECTOMY; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALYTIC ILEUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; JAPAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ADHESIONS;

EID: 74949121798     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e3181bc3f90     Document Type: Article

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