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Ectopic spleen: An easily identifiable but commonly undiagnosed entity until manifestation of complications

INTRODUCTION: Ectopic spleen is an uncommon clinical entity as splenectomy for treatment of ectopic spleens accounts for less than 0.25% of splenectomies. The most common age of presentation is childhood especially under 1 year of age followed by the third decade of life. PRESENTATION OF CASE: The p...

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Autores principales: Blouhos, Konstantinos, Boulas, Konstantinos A., Salpigktidis, Ilias, Barettas, Nikolaos, Hatzigeorgiadis, Anestis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24973525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2014.05.010