Recurrent Ruptured Spleen

Wandering Spleen with Venous Aneurysm as the Cause of Recurrent Abdominal Pain and Thrombocytopenia

The ruptured spleen. A histological, morphometrical and immunohistochemical study.

A traumatically ruptured spleen is regarded as a proper control in many histological and immunological studies on the human spleen. This paper compares spleens that ruptured due to trauma and spleens which were removed during surgery in patients without splenic pathology. Based on a histological, morphometrical, and immunohistochemical description of the control spleens it is shown that the tra...

Some Complications of Ruptured Liver

or under the diaphragm is formed, which, if left unopened, must terminate fatally. Generally, a severely ruptured liver is accompanied by some other lesion, of which the following are commonly found post-mortem :?Fractured ribs, lacerated lung, ruptured spleen, ruptured kidney, and ruptured diaphragm, numerous recorded instances of which can be seen in the .surgical and post-mortem books of the...

Occult ruptured spleen--two unusual clinical presentations.

Case reports of two patients with occult rupture of the spleen are presented. In one, blunt trauma appeared to involve only the neck and upper chest, resulting in two distinct tracheal injuries and no clinical indication of abdominal injury. On the 5th day after injury this patient strangulated an indirect inguinal hernia. At subsequent surgery, a ruptured spleen was also found. The second pati...

A Tuboovarian Abscess Associated with a Ruptured Spleen

We report the first case of a tuboovarian abscess complicated by a ruptured spleen. Our patient was a 27-year-old female with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of urinary symptoms and diarrhea. After being diagnosed with a tuboovarian abscess (TOA), she received antibiotics and was admitted to the gynecology service. Shortly therea...