Predictors of surgical management of high grade blunt splenic injuries in adult trauma patients: a 5-year retrospective cohort study from an academic level I trauma center

Predictors of surgical management of high grade blunt splenic injuries in adult trauma patients: a 5-year retrospective cohort study from an academic level I trauma center

Abstract Backgrounds Splenic injury accounts for 40% of all injuries after blunt abdominal trauma. Blunt splenic injury in hemodynamically unstable patients is preferably treated by splenectomy. Nowadays hemodynamically stable patients with low grade splenic injuries are mostly treated by non-operat...

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Main Authors: Thomas M. P. Nijdam, Roy Spijkerman, Lilian Hesselink, Luke P. H. Leenen, Falco Hietbrink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:Patient Safety in Surgery
Subjects:
Intra-abdominal
Trauma
Blunt
Spleen
Splenic
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13037-020-00257-3

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