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An overview of the treatment given to 91 patients with a CT scan with contrast of a splenic injury according to the presence of vascular injury (contrast extravasation or pseudoaneurism)
| 2000-6 | 2007-13 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment of the spleen injury | Number of patients | NOM | Splenectomy | NOM | Splenectomy | NOM with SAE |
| No contrast extravasation on CT | 71 | 20 | 7 | 25 | 2 | 17 |
| Contrast extravasation on CT | 17 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Pseudoaneurism | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
NOM non-operative management, SAE splenic artery embolization
