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Spontaneous rupture of the spleen as presenting event in infectious mononucleosis
R A Badura1, O Oliveira, M J Palhano
1Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
We report the case of a patient who underwent a life-saving splenectomy after spontaneous rupture of the spleen. The patient had no history of recent trauma and developed obvious clinical signs of infectious mononucleosis only 5 d after the splenectomy. Also of note was the late seroconversion in this patient.