%0 Journal Article
%T Risk of pneumonia among patients with splenectomy: a retrospective population-based cohort study
%A Cheng-Li Lin
%A Kuan-Fu Liao
%A Shih-Wei Lai
%J Archive of "Annals of Saudi Medicine".
%D 2017
%R 10.5144/0256-4947.2017.351
%X People without a spleen are particularly susceptible to various overwhelming infections including pneumonia. Although the association between splenectomy and pneumonia has been previously studied, there has been no study using the national claims data
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074197/