Pre-operative splenic vein diameter: A risk factor for portal-splenic vein thrombosis after laparoscopic splenectomy?

Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 164-

  Tenconi, Silvia Maria ^a   Rausei, Stefano ^a   Boni, Luigi ^a   Dionigi, Gianlorenzo ^a   Rovera, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; VEIN DIAMETER;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PORTAL VEIN; RISK FACTORS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77953262321     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.02.012     Document Type: Letter

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