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Emergency abdominal surgery in patients with acute leukemia and lymphoma
1Istituto di Semeiotica Medica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma.
The Italian Journal of Surgical Sciences
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Seventeen cases of acute leukemia or lymphoma which required emergency surgery for acute abdominal pain, are reported. It is concluded that surgery in these patients should be performed whenever indicated because the mortality rate of medical treatment is around 100%.