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Wandering spleen torsion—use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound
We report a case of torsion of a wandering spleen in an 18-year-old male patient who presented with acute abdominal pain and left lower quadrant mass. The patient was initially misdiagnosed at another institution. The patient came to our hospital for further investigation. Contrast-enhanced ultrasou...
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2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159283/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150342 |
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author | Aguirre Pascual, Elisa Fontanilla, Teresa Pérez, Íñigo Muñoz, Beatriz Carmona, Maria Soledad Minaya, Javier |
author_facet | Aguirre Pascual, Elisa Fontanilla, Teresa Pérez, Íñigo Muñoz, Beatriz Carmona, Maria Soledad Minaya, Javier |
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description | We report a case of torsion of a wandering spleen in an 18-year-old male patient who presented with acute abdominal pain and left lower quadrant mass. The patient was initially misdiagnosed at another institution. The patient came to our hospital for further investigation. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound was performed and showed a solid hypoechoic avascular mass, which was all that remained of the spleen, located under the left kidney. Based on the ultrasound findings, CT scan and MRI of the abdomen were performed to confirm the suspicion of torsion of a wandering spleen. To the best of our knowledge, there are no case reports describing the use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound for diagnosing torsion of a wandering spleen. |
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spelling | pubmed-61592832018-10-25 Wandering spleen torsion—use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound Aguirre Pascual, Elisa Fontanilla, Teresa Pérez, Íñigo Muñoz, Beatriz Carmona, Maria Soledad Minaya, Javier BJR Case Rep Case Report We report a case of torsion of a wandering spleen in an 18-year-old male patient who presented with acute abdominal pain and left lower quadrant mass. The patient was initially misdiagnosed at another institution. The patient came to our hospital for further investigation. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound was performed and showed a solid hypoechoic avascular mass, which was all that remained of the spleen, located under the left kidney. Based on the ultrasound findings, CT scan and MRI of the abdomen were performed to confirm the suspicion of torsion of a wandering spleen. To the best of our knowledge, there are no case reports describing the use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound for diagnosing torsion of a wandering spleen. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6159283/ /pubmed/30363305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150342 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Aguirre Pascual, Elisa Fontanilla, Teresa Pérez, Íñigo Muñoz, Beatriz Carmona, Maria Soledad Minaya, Javier Wandering spleen torsion—use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound |
title | Wandering spleen torsion—use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound |
title_full | Wandering spleen torsion—use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound |
title_fullStr | Wandering spleen torsion—use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound |
title_full_unstemmed | Wandering spleen torsion—use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound |
title_short | Wandering spleen torsion—use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound |
title_sort | wandering spleen torsion—use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159283/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150342 |
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