Although routine pathology review of tissue specimens after splenectomy is clinically beneficial for patients with splenomegaly, abnormal imaging results, a previous diagnosis of cancer, or a grossly ...
Background. A 15-year-old boy presented to hospital with tenderness in his left loin and hypochondrium, and frank hematuria; he was hemodynamically stable. The patient was overweight and had fallen ...
, we asked two doctors at University Hospital in Newark - one of the state's three Level One trauma units - about spleen injuries. Adam Fox is a trauma surgeon, while Gregory Sugalski is medical ...