Splenic trauma and overwhelming postsplenectomy infection
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 74 (5) , 343-345
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800740504
Abstract
This review examines the incidence and implications of overwhelming infection in patients who have undergone splenectomy following trauma.Keywords
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