Laparoscopic treatment of splenomegaly: A case for hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 818-823

  Pietrabissa, Andrea ^a,b   Morelli, Luca ^a   Peri, Andrea ^a   Pugliese, Luigi ^a   Zonta, Sandro ^b   Dionigi, Paolo ^b   Mosca, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND-ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HUMANS; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 79960397027     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.149     Document Type: Article

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