Late-Presenting Complications After Splenic Trauma
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Late-presenting complications after splenic trauma.
Since the 1970s, the management of blunt splenic trauma has evolved from almost exclusive surgical management to selective use of nonsurgical management in hemodynamically stable patients. Understanding of the spleen's immunologic importance in protection against overwhelming postsplenectomy infection led to development first of surgical techniques for splenic salvage and later to protocols for...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Permanente Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1552-5767,1552-5775
DOI: 10.7812/tpp/09-101