Wandering spleen: A rare entity and a diagnostic dilemma

Wandering spleen refers to a spleen that is ectopic in its location contrary to a normal spleen which rests in the left hypochondrium. Although it is a rare clinical entity seen in children, it can also be rarely seen in females of reproductive age group. We present one such case of wandering spleen...

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Autores principales: Kaur, Ravinder, Dua, Ashish, Dalal, Ashwani
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7694723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33273777
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_46_20
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description Wandering spleen refers to a spleen that is ectopic in its location contrary to a normal spleen which rests in the left hypochondrium. Although it is a rare clinical entity seen in children, it can also be rarely seen in females of reproductive age group. We present one such case of wandering spleen which was misdiagnosed earlier as a sub-hepatic collection.
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spelling pubmed-76947232020-12-02 Wandering spleen: A rare entity and a diagnostic dilemma Kaur, Ravinder Dua, Ashish Dalal, Ashwani Indian J Radiol Imaging Case Report Wandering spleen refers to a spleen that is ectopic in its location contrary to a normal spleen which rests in the left hypochondrium. Although it is a rare clinical entity seen in children, it can also be rarely seen in females of reproductive age group. We present one such case of wandering spleen which was misdiagnosed earlier as a sub-hepatic collection. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7694723/ /pubmed/33273777 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_46_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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