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Analysis of blood transfusion predictors in patients undergoing elective oesophagectomy for cancer

BACKGROUND: Oesophagectomy for cancers is a major operation with significant blood loss and usage. Concerns exist about the side effects of blood transfusion, cost and availability of donated blood. We are not aware of any previous study that has evaluated predictive factors for perioperative blood...

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Autores principales: Ayantunde, Abraham A, Ng, Ming Y, Pal, Saurov, Welch, Neil T, Parsons, Simon L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2266902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18221510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-8-3