[Late hemorrhage after traumatic rupture of the spleen]

A study was performed of 31 late hemorrhages following traumatic rupture of the spleen. The authors make some considerations in connection with problems of diagnosis and treatment. The difficulty is stressed, encountered in the diagnosis of splenic rupture immediately after the causative trauma, and the high death-rate that ensues. In view of impriving the present results by early surgical treatment, the utility is stressed of clinical observation, as well as of hematologic, radiologic and angiographic explorations of these patients.