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[Atraumatic rupture of the spleen: experience of 10 cases]
Eudaldo Miguel López-Tomassetti Fernández1, Luciano Delgado Plasencia, Iván Jesús Arteaga González
1Departamento de Cirugía, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España. dretomassetti@gmail.com
Abstract:
The most common cause of splenic rupture is trauma. Less frequently the spleen ruptures due to an ongoing hematologic, infectious or tumoral disease (pathologic rupture). We present a series of 10 patients with atraumatic splenic rupture: in seven patients there was a pathologic rupture. Two of the remaining three patients with spontaneous rupture were morbidly obese; this association has not previously been reported. The present review discusses the etiology, pathogenesis and optimal treatment of this entity.
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