Affiliation:
1. Massachusetts General Hospital
2. Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Abstract
Despite its protected location inside the rib cage, the spleen remains the most commonly injured organ after blunt abdominal trauma. The clinical decision-making process of splenic injury management continues to evolve due to improvements in surgical technique and noninvasive assessment. Splenic preservation techniques and splenic injury grading systems using computerized tomography were developed due to an increased understanding of the spleen's importance in the body's immunological defense system and awareness of the spleen's resiliency after injury. The concept of splenic salvage using splenorrhaphy and nonoperative management was initially applied to the pediatric population during the 1970s, with great success. Application of splenic salvage to hemodynamically stable adult patients with known or unknown splenic injury has demonstrated that adults can be less predictable in their clinical course. Despite the rigorous attention splenic trauma has received, it remains a controversial subject in the surgical and the radiological literature.
Subject
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
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6 articles.
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