RUPTURE OF THE NORMAL SPLEEN IN PREGNANCY

Rupture of Normal Spleen

gIR The case given below may interest your readers A 'railway loader, healthy young man, aged about 25, slipped his foot while unloading a truck containing rails, on the 22nd May last. The heavy rail he was unloading with the help of others fell on him. striking against the left side of the abdomen and the right thigh. He was picked up unconscious and sent at once to the Civil Hospital, where, ...

Spontaneous rupture of the spleen in early pregnancy.

Spontaneous rupture of the spleen as a result of laceration by a rib exostosis is described. This unusual case serves to underline the diagnostic difficulties of the acute abdomen in pregnancy.

Spontaneous Rupture of a Normal Spleen in a Haemophiliac.

Rupture of the Spleen

Superficial veins enlarged and form a plexus with the mammary vessels. Palpation.?Fluctuation wave present. By the method of " dipping " or displacement the spleen is felt to be enlarged. Percussion.?In the dorsal position the flanks are dull and the umbilical and epigrastric regions tympanatic to percuss. The dulness changes with change of position. Liver.?Can be felt below at the right costal...

Rupture of the Spleen

The (lead body of an adult mule was sent to tlie Civil Dispensary, Aska, for autopsy on the 27th July 890, under the suspicion that the deceased had died from the effects of criminal hurt sustained by him 13 days previous to death. I do not here wish to encroach much on the patience of your readers, and unnecessarily occupy the limited space of your valuable journal, by the description of all t...