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RECURRENT TRAUMATIC SPLENIC RUPTURE TWO YEARS AFTER NON‐OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF SPLENIC TRAUMA
Author(s) -
Cox M. R.,
Gunn I. F.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1992.tb06949.x
Subject(s) - medicine , conservative management , splenectomy , conservative treatment , surgery , blunt , spleen , blunt trauma , splenic disease , immunology
Non‐operative and conservative surgical management are now the preferred methods of treatment for blunt splenic trauma in children and adults. These conservative strategies evolved as the risk of late septic complications following splenectomy for trauma became apparent. Although recurrent splenic trauma following conservative management of the ruptured spleen is rare, its surgical management may pose some difficult problems. We present a case in which a second episode of splenic trauma required surgery, two years after the successful non‐operative management of the first splenic injury.