TRAUMA AND PREËXISTING DISEASE WITH RUPTURE OF SPLEEN

28 February 1954

journal article
research article
Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine

Vol. 40 (3) , 501-505
https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-40-3-501

Abstract

When a spleen undergoes spontaneous rupture or ruptures after mild trauma, a search for a predisposing cause is indicated. Diseases predisposing to rupture of the spleen are (1) leukemia, Gaucher''s disease, malaria, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, and acute sepsis; and (2) infectious mononucleosis, virus hepatitis, and congenital hemolytic disease. Rupture of 2 diseased spleens is reported..

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PATHOLOGIC ASPECTS OF ACUTE EPIDEMIC HEPATITIS, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO EARLY STAGES - REPORT OF A SERIES OF 10 CASES, INCLUDING A CASE IN WHICH THERE WAS SPONTANEOUS RUPTURE OF THE SPLEEN AND 6 CASES OF FULMINATING DISEASE IN PATIENTS WHO HAD BEEN WOUNDED SEVERAL MONTHS PREVIOUSLY
1946