Tag spleen injury
Sir Charles Alfred Ballance (1856-1936)

Charles Ballance

Sir Charles Alfred Ballance (1856-1936) was an English surgeon. Ballance's (triad) sign (1898) for diagnosing splenic rupture

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Spleen trauma

Splenic trauma may result from blunt or penetrating abdominal injury. The spleen is the most commonly injured organ in blunt abdominal trauma