Laparoscopic splenectomy for severe blunt trauma: Initial experience of ten consecutive cases with a fast hemostatic technique

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1325-1330

  Carobbi, Andrea ^a   Romagnani, Francesco ^a   Antonelli, Giacomo ^a   Bianchini, Manlio ^a  

^a CAMPO DI MARTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emergency laparoscopy; Laparoscopic splenectomy; Splenic autotransplantation; Splenic blunt trauma; Splenic hemostasis; Splenic injury

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPLEEN CYST; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VACCINATION; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUPTURE; SPLEEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOPERITONEUM; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955662378     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-009-0768-9     Document Type: Article

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