Splenic Infarct Questions & Answers

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Manish Parikh, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine; Attending Surgeon, Director Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery, Bellevue Hospital

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H Leon Pachter, MD, FACS Chair, George David Stewart Professor, Department of Surgery, New York University Medical Center

H Leon Pachter, MD, FACS is a member of the following medical societies: American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, American College of Surgeons, American Surgical Association, American Trauma Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Society of Critical Care Medicine

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Amy L Friedman, MD Professor of Surgery, Director of Transplantation, State University of New York Upstate Medical University

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John Geibel, MD, MSc, DSc, AGAF Vice Chair and Professor, Department of Surgery, Section of Gastrointestinal Medicine, Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine; Director of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital; American Gastroenterological Association Fellow; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine

John Geibel, MD, MSc, DSc, AGAF is a member of the following medical societies: American Gastroenterological Association, American Physiological Society, American Society of Nephrology, Association for Academic Surgery, International Society of Nephrology, New York Academy of Sciences, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

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Lewis J Kaplan, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; Section Chief, Surgical Critical Care, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Lewis J Kaplan, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP is a member of the following medical societies: American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, American College of Surgeons, Association for Academic Surgery, Association for Surgical Education, Connecticut State Medical Society, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society, Society for the Advancement of Blood Management, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Surgical Infection Society

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We wish to thank Amber A Guth, MD, FACS, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, New York University Clinical Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, for her contribution to this article.

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