Trauma
96%
of children with a spleen-only injury kept their spleen without an operation, in paediatric surgical hospitals.
- In adult hospitals, the figure was 76%.
- Spleen removal: about 2 in 100 children in paediatric surgical hospitals, vs 17 in 100 in adult hospitals.
- Keeping the spleen matters: without one, a child has a lifelong higher risk of serious infection.
Source: Warwick et al (TARN), BJS 2019
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