CT Case 070
A 50-year-old unrestrained male passenger involved in a high speed MVA is brought in by the pre-hospital team to your emergency department after a 60-minute retrieval time.
Tag spleen injury
Solid organ injury (case study)
Abdominal CT: Trauma series. Case study to review of the major patterns of solid organ injury identified on abdominal CT.
Abdominal CT: renal, ureter, and adrenal injury
Abdominal CT: Trauma series. Imaging renal, ureter, and adrenal injuries
Abdominal CT: spleen, liver, and pancreas injury
Abdominal CT: Trauma series. Diagnosing spleen, liver, and pancreatic injuries
CT Case 037
A 36-year-old male is involved in a motorbike accident while travelling at 60km/hr. He is intubated on scene by the retrieval team for decreased GCS.
Charles Ballance
Sir Charles Alfred Ballance (1856-1936) was an English surgeon. Ballance's (triad) sign (1898) for diagnosing splenic rupture
Spleen trauma
Splenic trauma may result from blunt or penetrating abdominal injury. The spleen is the most commonly injured organ in blunt abdominal trauma