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CT confirmation of healing spleen

Hardcastle, Tim, Dr <tch at sun.ac.za> tch at sun.ac.za
Wed Feb 13 05:00:34 GMT 2008 

Allen

Since folow-up CT does not predict failure, I'm not sure about whether it should have been done, but since he is well and likely to have a new capsule - sure, why not!

Tim

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Subject: CT confirmation of healing spleen


Dear all
I would appreciate the opinion of the members on the CT confirmation  
of a healed ruptured spleen. The CT scan is of a 20 year old male  
injured in a MVC - initial CT showing a splenic injury managed  
conservatively and another 6 months later showing a ? fibrous band  
joining the 2 fragments.

Is this sufficient evidence to allow him to go back to contact sports?  
Or is the band expected to narrow even further in the future?

Thanks very much

Allen

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