Re-evaluation of the necessity of prophylactic drainage after liver resection

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 539-544

  Hirokawa, Fumitoshi ^a   Hayashi, Michihiro ^a   Miyamoto, Yoshiharu ^a   Asakuma, Mitsuhiro ^a   Shimizu, Tetsunosuke ^a   Komeda, Koji ^a   Inoue, Yoshihiro ^a   Tanigawa, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROPHYLACTIC ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; PROPHYLAXIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COHORT STUDIES; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958161563     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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