This marks HCC as one of the few community colleges with its own residence hall. The college has five campuses located throughout the county. Locations include: Brandon, Dale Mabry, Plant City, Ybor City, and South Shore (on the south shore of Tampa Bay in Ruskin). There are also instructional centers at MacDill Air Force Base (South Tampa/aligned with the Plant City Campus) and at the Regent (Riverview) aligned with the Brandon Campus.
A splenectomy is the surgical removal of the spleen, a small, hand-sized organ located in front of the left kidney and behind the stomach. The spleen...
The decision to perform a splenectomy must be made quickly by some owners, as it is often done on an emergency basis when a splenic mass is actively bleeding. In other cases, owners may have time to consider options when a mass is identified in the spleen incidentally during palpation or ultrasound. In either scenario, a percentage of splenic masses are malignant and are therefore associated with a poor long-term prognosis.