TY - JOUR
AU - Crofts, T
AB - Correspondence lntraperitoneal bleeding due to primary splenic pregnancy Sir Sir Professor Hennessy and Mr OConnell are to be congratulated on their In September 1983 Reddy and Modgill reported in your journal acase of results for oesophageal resection (Br J Surg 1984; 71: 75C-1) and the intraperitoneal bleeding due to primary splenic pregnancy (Br J Surg honesty with which they are presented. I concur with their conclusion 1983; 70: 564). A similar case of primary splenic pregnancy was reported that in appropriate patients surgical resection should be the treatment of by me and my colleagues', in 1981. Our patient had also intra-abdominal choice. Two points are worthy of note. bleeding. A recent survey of the literature revealed seven more cases of The proportion of resection margins with microscopic involvement this rare abdominal pregnancy. Although primary splenic pregnancy is a of tumour tissue was high as reported in other series from China' that rare variant ofectopic pregnancy, in our opinion every bleeding mass on have shown 5 cm to be inadequate to guarantee clearance of oesopha- the surface of the spleen in a woman should raise the diagnosis. geal lesions. Of the possible avoidable deaths in the series one related to 
TI - Surgery of oesophageal carcinoma
JO - British Journal of Surgery
DO - 10.1002/bjs.1800720428
DA - 1985-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/surgery-of-oesophageal-carcinoma-dVDuniI9ZH
SP - 325
EP - 325
VL - 72
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -