Age should be considered in the decision making of prophylactic splenic angioembolization in nonoperative management of blunt splenic trauma: a study of 208 consecutive civilian trauma patients.

BACKGROUNDA strategy of prophylactic splenic angioembolization using observation failure risk (OFR) computed tomographic (CT) scan criteria has been proposed recently. The main aim of the present study was to evaluate the relevance of the criteria in terms of delayed splenic rupture in patients with