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Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by pacaro on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:36PM (#13178429)
Shame that the article doesn't mention how we know so much about long term survival rates of people with no spleen. IIRC During the Second World War (aka WWII) large numbers of injured soldiers had their spleens removed in passing, this gave a large population to follow
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Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by mikeash on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @02:15PM (#13178807)
Does "in passing" mean they got removed unnecessarily, just because they were already being operated on, or is it something else?
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