Skip to main content
British Medical Journal logoLink to British Medical Journal
. 1966 Feb 19;1(5485):446–450. doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.5485.446

Risk of Serious Infection Following Splenectomy

A G R Lowdon, R H M Stewart, W Walker
PMCID: PMC1843618  PMID: 20790839

Full text

PDF
446

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. CARPENTER A. F., WINTROBE M. M., FULLER E. A., HAUT A., CARTWRIGHT G. E. Treatment of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. J Am Med Assoc. 1959 Dec 5;171:1911–1916. doi: 10.1001/jama.1959.03010320001001. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. EDWARDS H. C. The practice and consequences of splenectomy. Lancet. 1951 Oct 6;2(6684):601–606. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(51)92886-3. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. GOFSTEIN R., GELLIS S. S. Splenectomy in infancy and childhood; the question of overwhelming infection following operation. AMA J Dis Child. 1956 Jun;91(6):566–569. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1956.02060020568007. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. HORAN M., COLEBATCH J. H. Relation between splenectomy and subsequent infection. A clinical study. Arch Dis Child. 1962 Aug;37:398–414. doi: 10.1136/adc.37.194.398. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. HUNTLEY C. C. Infection following splenectomy in infants and children; a review of the experience at Duke Hospital in infants and children during a twenty-two-year period (1933-1954). AMA J Dis Child. 1958 May;95(5):477–480. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. KING H., SHUMACKER H. B., Jr Splenic studies. I. Susceptibility to infection after splenectomy performed in infancy. Ann Surg. 1952 Aug;136(2):239–242. doi: 10.1097/00000658-195208000-00006. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  7. LOWDON A. G., WALKER J. H., WALKER W. Infection following splenectomy in childhood. Lancet. 1962 Mar 10;1(7228):499–504. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(62)91476-9. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  8. MACPHERSON A. I. The late results of splenectomy: a review of 243 cases. J R Coll Surg Edinb. 1959 Jul;4:305–326. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  9. ROBINSON T. W., STURGEON P. Post-splenectomy infection in infants and children. Pediatrics. 1960 Jun;25:941–951. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  10. SMITH C. H., ERLANDSON M., SCHULMAN I., STERN G. Hazard of severe infections in splenectomized infants and children. Am J Med. 1957 Mar;22(3):390–404. doi: 10.1016/0002-9343(57)90095-5. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from British Medical Journal are provided here courtesy of BMJ Publishing Group

RESOURCES