Effect of laparoscopic splenectomy on portal haemodynamics in patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1585-1593

  Kawanaka, H ^a   Akahoshi, T ^a   Kinjo, N ^a   Iguchi, T ^a   Ninomiya, M ^a   Yamashita, Y I ^a   Ikegami, T ^a   Yoshizumi, T ^a   Shirabe, K ^a   Maehara, Y ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; NITRIC OXIDE;

ASCITES; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPLICATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ASCITES; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ENDOTHELIN-1; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; ORGAN SIZE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84907934610     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.9622     Document Type: Article

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