DELAYED RUPTURE OF THE SPLEEN CAUSED BY AN INTRASPLENIC PSEUDOANEURYSM FOLLOWING BLUNT TRAUMA - CASE-REPORT

Authors
HIRAIDE A YAMAMOTO H YAHATA K YOSHIOKA T SUGIMOTO T
Citation
A. Hiraide et al., DELAYED RUPTURE OF THE SPLEEN CAUSED BY AN INTRASPLENIC PSEUDOANEURYSM FOLLOWING BLUNT TRAUMA - CASE-REPORT, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 36(5), 1994, pp. 743-744
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
36
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
743 - 744
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
The delayed rupture of the spleen in a 12-year-old boy is reported. He was admitted with an isolated blunt splenic injury. Successive echogr ams revealed an enlarging hypoechogenic region in the spleen. A magnet ic resonance imaging (MRI) scan showed that this hypoechogenic region was a splenic pseudoaneurysm. On his 7th hospital day the pseudoaneury sm ruptured. An emergency laparotomy with splenorrhaphy was performed. His subsequent clinical course was uneventful and the pseudoaneurysm was replaced by a hematoma that eventually resolved.