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Splenectomy for hypersplenism with or without preoperative splenic artery embolisation

BACKGROUND: Although splenectomy is considered the preferred treatment for hypersplenism, intraoperative blood loss remains a common occurrence. We prospectively compared the perioperative and clinical outcome of splenic artery embolisation (SAE) before open splenectomy (OS) versus OS alone in two c...

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Autores principales: Zaitoun, Mohamed M. A., Basha, Mohammad Abd Alkhalik, Raafat, Ahmed, Rushdy, Tamer, Mawla, Walid A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6133802/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41747-018-0053-6