Salvage Splenopexy for Torsion of Wandering Spleen in a Child

The wandering spleen is a rare condition characterized by the absence or underdevelopment of one or all of the splenic suspensory ligaments that resulting in increased splenic mobility and rarely torsion. Preventing infarction is the aim of a prompt surgery by splenopexy. We report a case of salvage...

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Autores principales: Goyal, Ram Babu, Gupta, Rahul, Prabhakar, Girish, Mathur, Praveen, Mala, Tariq Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24834385
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author Goyal, Ram Babu
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description The wandering spleen is a rare condition characterized by the absence or underdevelopment of one or all of the splenic suspensory ligaments that resulting in increased splenic mobility and rarely torsion. Preventing infarction is the aim of a prompt surgery by splenopexy. We report a case of salvage splenopexy in torsion of a wandering spleen in a three year old girl presented with severe abdominal pain for three days.
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spelling pubmed-40050912014-05-15 Salvage Splenopexy for Torsion of Wandering Spleen in a Child Goyal, Ram Babu Gupta, Rahul Prabhakar, Girish Mathur, Praveen Mala, Tariq Ahmed APSP J Case Rep Case Report The wandering spleen is a rare condition characterized by the absence or underdevelopment of one or all of the splenic suspensory ligaments that resulting in increased splenic mobility and rarely torsion. Preventing infarction is the aim of a prompt surgery by splenopexy. We report a case of salvage splenopexy in torsion of a wandering spleen in a three year old girl presented with severe abdominal pain for three days. EL-MED-Pub 2014-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4005091/ /pubmed/24834385 Text en Copyright © 2014 Goyal et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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