Non operative conservative management of blunt trauma to the spleen in children: a single tertiary hospital experience

ABSTRACT

Background: Splenic injury is the leading cause of major bleeding in the patients of blunt abdominal trauma. In earlier medical practice, the blunt splenic injury was managed surgically in most cases, but the increased understanding of the splenic function in the immunological process and the identification of post-splenectomy complications have led physicians to prefer the non-operative management