Splenic trauma: Is splenectomy redundant?

41 year old male, serving air warrior sustained blunt abdominal trauma, CECT revealed grade III splenic injury. He was managed conservatively with good clinical outcome. Conservatism is the new approach to splenic trauma.

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Main Authors: S Tandon, Anup B Prakash, Mahendra Mal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Marine Medical Society
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Online Access:http://www.marinemedicalsociety.in/article.asp?issn=0975-3605;year=2013;volume=15;issue=1;spage=56;epage=58;aulast=Tandon;type=0
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spelling doaj-7f2e0d72cbbc4623a69705bdff5e90b82020-11-25T00:20:22ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Marine Medical Society0975-36052013-01-01151565810.4103/0975-3605.203278Splenic trauma: Is splenectomy redundant?S TandonAnup B PrakashMahendra Mal41 year old male, serving air warrior sustained blunt abdominal trauma, CECT revealed grade III splenic injury. He was managed conservatively with good clinical outcome. Conservatism is the new approach to splenic trauma.http://www.marinemedicalsociety.in/article.asp?issn=0975-3605;year=2013;volume=15;issue=1;spage=56;epage=58;aulast=Tandon;type=0Blunt abdominal traumaSplenic trauma
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author S Tandon
Anup B Prakash
Mahendra Mal
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Anup B Prakash
Mahendra Mal
Splenic trauma: Is splenectomy redundant?
Journal of Marine Medical Society
Blunt abdominal trauma
Splenic trauma
author_facet S Tandon
Anup B Prakash
Mahendra Mal
author_sort S Tandon
title Splenic trauma: Is splenectomy redundant?
title_short Splenic trauma: Is splenectomy redundant?
title_full Splenic trauma: Is splenectomy redundant?
title_fullStr Splenic trauma: Is splenectomy redundant?
title_full_unstemmed Splenic trauma: Is splenectomy redundant?
title_sort splenic trauma: is splenectomy redundant?
publisher Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
series Journal of Marine Medical Society
issn 0975-3605
publishDate 2013-01-01
description 41 year old male, serving air warrior sustained blunt abdominal trauma, CECT revealed grade III splenic injury. He was managed conservatively with good clinical outcome. Conservatism is the new approach to splenic trauma.
topic Blunt abdominal trauma
Splenic trauma
url http://www.marinemedicalsociety.in/article.asp?issn=0975-3605;year=2013;volume=15;issue=1;spage=56;epage=58;aulast=Tandon;type=0
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