Is cholecystectomy really an indication for concomitant splenectomy in mild hereditary spherocytosis?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 596-599

  Alizai, Naved K ^a   Richards, E Michael ^a   Stringer, Mark D ^b  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLSTONE; HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; COMPLICATION; GALLSTONES; LAPAROSCOPY; SPHEROCYTOSIS, HEREDITARY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHEROCYTOSIS, HEREDITARY; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 77955236930     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.178228     Document Type: Article

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