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- Title
You wander... you lose! Importance of surgical intervention in wandering spleen.
- Authors
Lai, Charlyne; Whan, Elizabeth; Gera, Parshotam
- Abstract
The article presents the case history of a 3-year-old girl experiencing a wandering spleen including risk of torsion and trauma. When the girl was presented to the hospital in February 2016, a palpable lump in her pelvis was detected. She had complains of on and off abdominal pain for 1 week, but was afebrile and hemodynamically stable.
- Subjects
SPLEEN diseases; ABDOMINAL pain; SPLENECTOMY; ULTRASONIC imaging; SURGICAL excision
- Publication
ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2018, Vol 88, Issue 11, pE805
- ISSN
1445-1433
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ans.13859