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Nonoperative management of splenic injuries: significance of age.
J Surg Res
March 2016
Department of Surgery, Section of Trauma, Reading Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Background: In the nonoperative management (NOM) of blunt splenic injuries (BSI), the clinical relevance of age as a risk factor has not been well studied.
Methods: Using the 2011 National Trauma Data Bank data set, age was analyzed both as a continuous variable and a categorical variable (group 1 [13-54 y], group 2 [55-74 y], and group 3 [≥75 y]). BSI severity was stratified by abbreviated injury scale (AIS): group 1 (AIS ≤2), group 2 (AIS 3), and group 3 (AIS ≥4).