Effect of liver transplantation on spleen size, collateral veins, and platelet counts

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 320-326

  Chikamori, Fumio ^a   Nishida, Seigo ^a   Selvaggi, Gennaro ^a   Tryphonopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Moon, Jang I ^a   Levi, David M ^a   Kato, Tomoaki ^a   Island, Eddie R ^a   Maki, Akira ^a   Tekin, Akin ^a   Tzakis, Andreas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VASCULARIZATION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; SPLENORENAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77949265958     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0314-x     Document Type: Article

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