Pancreatic cancer complicated by splenic infarction and abscess

Chirurgia (Romania)

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 523-525

  Cipe G ^a   Genc V ^b   Cakmak A ^b   Kuterdem, E ^b  

^a BEZMIALEM VAKIF UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Abscess; Infarction; Pancreatic neoplasms; Spleen

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADENOCARCINOMA; COLECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES; SPLENIC INFARCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874074016     PISSN: 12219118     EISSN: 1842368X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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