Perioperative Mortality After Non-hepatic General Surgery in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: An Analysis of 138 Operations in the 2000s Using Child and MELD Scores

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Neeff, Hannes ^a   Mariaskin, Dimitri ^a   Spangenberg, Hans Christian ^a   Hopt, Ulrich T ^a   Makowiec, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal surgery; Liver cirrhosis; Liver function; Morbidity; Perioperative mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751578831     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-010-1366-9     Document Type: Article

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