CT diagnosis of splenic laceration

Splenic laceration following ERCP.

A 39-year-old otherwise healthy woman presented to thehospitalwith acute cholecystitis andunderwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The procedure was technically difficult due to a severely inflamed gallbladder with adherent omentum. There was poor visualization of the cystic duct and bile duct junction, and a subtotal cholecystectomy was carried out. A surgical drain was left at the previous g...

Splenic laceration after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography has been part of clinical practice for over 35 years. The procedure itself carries risks. Most complications associated with the procedure have been described in the literature. Splenic injury is an extremely rare complication after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and only nine such cases have been reported to our knowledge since 198...

CT of splenic disease

Superselective splenic artery embolization for the management of splenic laceration following colonoscopy

Splenic injury is a rare complication following colonoscopy with fewer than 100 reported cases worldwide to date. We describe a case of splenic laceration presenting 5 days following diagnostic colonoscopy. Although hemodynamically stable, active contrast extravasation on contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography predicted likely failure of conservative management. Splenic artery angi...

Splenic Laceration and Pulmonary Contusion Injury From Bean Bag Weapon

Supervising Section Editor: Sean Henderson, MD Submission history: Submitted October 3, 2013; Accepted October 21, 2013 Electronically published February 19, 2014 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2013.10.19900 [West J Emerg Med. 2014;15(2):118–119.] Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania U...