Open AccessWandering Spleen - A Rare Entity
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of women's health care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2573-9506
DOI - 10.33140/ijwhc/03/01/00005
Subject(s) - wandering spleen , medicine , differential diagnosis , abdomen , acute abdomen , radiology , abdominal pain , quadrant (abdomen) , spleen , surgery , splenectomy , pathology
Wandering spleen is a rare differential diagnosis of an acute abdomen and must be suspected if a patient presents with abdominal pain along with a palpable lump and displacement of bowel to left upper quadrant and should be confirmed by CT scan. As the condition is very rarely diagnosed pre-operatively, it requires a very high index of suspicion.