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SPONTANEOUS SPLENIC RUPTURE AFTER APPENDECTOMY: CASE REPORT OF AN EXTREMELY RARE ENTITY
Kushal Singh, *Anshita Singh and Piyush
ABSTRACT
Spontaneous rupture of the spleen is extremely rare. Rupture of the spleen in the absence of trauma or previously diagnosed disease is commonly ignored by emergency physicians and is often not documented as such in emergency literature or in journals from other fields. Systematic review of English and French language publications catalogued in Pubmed, Embase and CINAHL between 1950 and 2011 done by F Kris Aubrey-Bassler and Nicholas Sowers showed 112 cases of splenic rupture following medical procedures, out of that only one case is secondary to abdominal surgery. In the view of high overall mortality rate (10-15%) following splenic rupture early diagnosis is crucial. We present a case of splenic rupture in a 57 year old female following two weeks of appendectomy. To best of our knowledge this is first case of spontaneous splenic rupture after appendectomy.
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