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A TORTED PELVIC SPLEEN
Author(s) -
Steele R. D.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1988.tb01027.x
Subject(s) - medicine , wandering spleen , citation , general surgery , spleen , library science , splenectomy , computer science
An unusual case of an acute abdomen due to a torted wandering spleen in the pelvis is presented. As is usual for the few cases reported, the diagnosis was unsuspected pre-operatively. The treatment is splenectomy and a quick and complete recovery followed this. Literature on the subject is reviewed.