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In the modern era, while the majority of patients presenting with splenic injury are victims of blunt trauma, up to 14 % are victims of penetrating trauma. Conversely, for victims of penetrating trauma, the spleen has been reported to be one of the most infrequently injured organs, ranging from 7 to 9 %.

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  1. Division of Trauma & Critical Care, University of Massachusetts Medical School, UMassMemorial Medical Center, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA

    Heena P. Santry

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  1. Professor of Surgery Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University Medical School, Boston, USA

    George C. Velmahos

  2. Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Milpark Hospital Academic Trauma Centre and Leratong Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Elias Degiannis

  3. Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Dietrich Doll

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Santry, H.P. (2017). Spleen. In: Velmahos, G., Degiannis, E., Doll, D. (eds) Penetrating Trauma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49859-0_54

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