The spleen is among one of the most frequently injured abdominal organs in patients of blunt abdominal trauma. Due to fear of hemorrhage from injured spleen, surgeons have commonly removed then even in minor injuries, specially because of widely prevalent misconception, from time of Aristotle, that spleen is not essential to life; rare examples of congenital asplenia already having been identified.
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