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Torsion of a wandering spleen managed conservatively: Rare and interesting

Author(s) -

DhruvaNath Ghosh,

Rohen Skiba,

Andrew Barker

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of indian association of pediatric surgeons

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 1998-3891

pISSN - 0971-9261

DOI - 10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_216_19

Subject(s) - wandering spleen , medicine , conservative management , spleen , conservative treatment , surgery , torsion (gastropod) , abdominal pain , radiological weapon , general surgery , splenectomy

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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