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Wandering spleen with chronic torsion

  • Takeyuki Misawa
  • , Kazuhiko Yoshida
  • , Hiroaki Shiba
  • , Susumu Kobayashi
  • , Katsuhiko Yanaga
  • The Jikei University School of Medicine

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Abstract

Wandering spleen, a rare clinical entity with a high incidence of splenic torsion and infarction, was preoperatively diagnosed in a 28-year-old woman. Axial computed tomography showed the absence of the spleen in the left subphrenic space and a spleen-like mass in the pelvis, suggestive of a wandering spleen. A coronal contrast-enhanced computed tomography image exhibited the enlarged spleen suspended by elongated, dilated, and somewhat tortuous splenic vessels. Owing to the symptomatic splenomegaly with hypersplenism and chronic torsion, laparoscopic splenectomy was performed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)504-505
Number of pages2
JournalAmerican Journal of Surgery
Volume195
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Chronic torsion
  • Laparoscopic splenectomy
  • Wandering spleen

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