
Among patients with severe blunt splenic injury and multiple trauma, nonoperative management with angioembolization or observation reduced mortality, complications, and hospital stay compared with splenectomy. ja.ma/46oTcUR
Raimundas Lunevicius
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Consultant: Emergency General, Trauma, Biliary, Hernia Surgery. Liverpool University Hospitals. UK TARN. IHME Collaborator (US). Editor-in-Chief, ECM, MDPI (CH)

Among patients with severe blunt splenic injury and multiple trauma, nonoperative management with angioembolization or observation reduced mortality, complications, and hospital stay compared with splenectomy. ja.ma/46oTcUR




RCT: Among older adults with frailty scheduled for surgery, assignment to home-based prehabilitation before surgery did not improve postoperative disability scores or reduce complications. ja.ma/4jrAMrF


Long-term data show subtotal cholecystectomy and open conversion both carry tradeoffs, but subtotal techniques reduce bile duct injury without compromising overall survival. journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…


Anatomy of the duodenum and pancreas from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory


