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By eva99 | Oct 12, 2011

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What is the procedure and recovery like for a spleenectomy? Large solid mass found on Spleen.

What is the procedure and recovery and recovery time for a Spleenectomy like? No symptoms but through ultrasound found that I had a solid mass taking up 5/8 of my spleen size.

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tonyad_heath

Oct 13, 2011

I am not really sure have never been through that before.

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