Recommended timing for surveillance ultrasonography to diagnose portal splenic vein thrombosis after laparoscopic splenectomy

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1670-1678

  Tran, Tung ^a,b   Demyttenaere, Sebastian V ^a,b   Polyhronopoulos, Gerry ^a,b   Séguin, Chantal ^c   Artho, Giovanni P ^c   Kaneva, Pepa ^b   Fried, Gerald M ^a,b   Feldman, Liane S ^a,b  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complications; Spleen

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77955665720     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-009-0828-1     Document Type: Article

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