%0 Journal Article
%T Delayed Splenic Rupture; Normal Appearing Spleen on the Initial Multidetector Computed Tomography (MDCT) Can Sometimes Be Misleading
%A Alireza Hamidian Jahromi
%A Guillermo Sangster
%A Matias Migliaro
%A Melisa Romano
%J Archive of "Trauma Monthly".
%D 2016
%R 10.5812/traumamon.24465
%X Delayed splenic rupture (DSR) is an unusual outcome following blunt abdominal trauma. Although DSR is defined as bleeding more than 48 hours after blunt trauma in a previously hemodynamically stable patient, a review of the reported cases in the literature shows that in almost all of the cases the initial CT imaging revealed some form of damage to the spleen
%K Delayed Splenic Rupture
%K Spleen
%K Blunt Trauma
%K Complications
%K CT Scan
%K Imaging
%K Multidetector Computed Tomography
%K MDCT
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5292018/