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Application of Laparoscopic Partial Splenectomy with Total Blood Flow Occlusion in Benign Splenic Lesions
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Delayed rupture of the spleen in rheumatoid arthritis
1Department of Surgery, East Birmingham Hospital.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
When tripping and falling patients with rheumatoid arthritis may adopt the 'fetal tuck' position to protect their painful deformed hands. There is then a risk of splenic injury by the left elbow, which may not be immediately apparent.

