Torsion of a Wandering Spleen Managed Conservatively: Rare and Interesting

Wandering spleen is a rare pathology. A 2-year-old child with abdominal pain was diagnosed to have a torted, avascular wandering spleen. On conservative management, she remains well with no radiological evidence of the spleen. Splenic torsion usually warrants surgery. Nonoperative management in sele...

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Autores principales: Skiba, Rohen, Ghosh, Dhruva Nath, Barker, Andrew
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/PMC7732016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33343117
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_216_19
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description Wandering spleen is a rare pathology. A 2-year-old child with abdominal pain was diagnosed to have a torted, avascular wandering spleen. On conservative management, she remains well with no radiological evidence of the spleen. Splenic torsion usually warrants surgery. Nonoperative management in selected cases allows the natural process of autosplenectomy.
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spelling pubmed-77320162020-12-18 Torsion of a Wandering Spleen Managed Conservatively: Rare and Interesting Skiba, Rohen Ghosh, Dhruva Nath Barker, Andrew J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Wandering spleen is a rare pathology. A 2-year-old child with abdominal pain was diagnosed to have a torted, avascular wandering spleen. On conservative management, she remains well with no radiological evidence of the spleen. Splenic torsion usually warrants surgery. Nonoperative management in selected cases allows the natural process of autosplenectomy. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7732016/ /pubmed/33343117 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_216_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons 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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