Incidentally detected asplenia in a healthy 64-year-old female live kidney donor

Heterotaxia syndromes are rare birth defects which can result in developmental malformations. A 64-year-old woman presented to the hospital for preoperative screening for kidney donation; during which she was found to have no gallbladder and no spleen, without any signs of surgical removal. This cou...

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Autores principales: Wolff, Leoniek D., Nijboer, Mijntje N., vd Wetering, Jacqueline, Dor, Frank J.M.F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5410883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28473921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omx012
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author Wolff, Leoniek D.
Nijboer, Mijntje N.
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Dor, Frank J.M.F.
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description Heterotaxia syndromes are rare birth defects which can result in developmental malformations. A 64-year-old woman presented to the hospital for preoperative screening for kidney donation; during which she was found to have no gallbladder and no spleen, without any signs of surgical removal. This could be a new description of a heterotaxia syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-54108832017-05-04 Incidentally detected asplenia in a healthy 64-year-old female live kidney donor Wolff, Leoniek D. Nijboer, Mijntje N. vd Wetering, Jacqueline Dor, Frank J.M.F. Oxf Med Case Reports Case Report Heterotaxia syndromes are rare birth defects which can result in developmental malformations. A 64-year-old woman presented to the hospital for preoperative screening for kidney donation; during which she was found to have no gallbladder and no spleen, without any signs of surgical removal. This could be a new description of a heterotaxia syndrome. Oxford University Press 2017-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5410883/ /pubmed/28473921 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omx012 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Incidentally detected asplenia in a healthy 64-year-old female live kidney donor
title Incidentally detected asplenia in a healthy 64-year-old female live kidney donor
title_full Incidentally detected asplenia in a healthy 64-year-old female live kidney donor
title_fullStr Incidentally detected asplenia in a healthy 64-year-old female live kidney donor
title_full_unstemmed Incidentally detected asplenia in a healthy 64-year-old female live kidney donor
title_short Incidentally detected asplenia in a healthy 64-year-old female live kidney donor
title_sort incidentally detected asplenia in a healthy 64-year-old female live kidney donor
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5410883/
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