Wandering Spleen in an Adult Man Associated With the Horseshoe Kidney [PDF]
, 2013 Introduction: A wandering spleen occurs when there is a laxity of the ligaments that fix the spleen in its normal anatomical position. Case Presentation: This is a case report of a wandering spleen with horseshoe kidney in a 29-year-old male admitted ...
Memari, M. +3 more
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Wandering spleen with splenic torsion in a child with DiGeorge syndrome
Radiology Case Reports, 2019 Wandering spleen is a rare condition, occurring due to either abnormal development of or abnormal laxity of suspensory ligaments. The hypermobility of the spleen predisposes these patients to splenic torsion, which may be a life-threatening complication.
Charlotte S. Taylor, MD +1 more
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Torsion of the Wandering Spleen [PDF]
Acta Medica Iranica, 2009 Wandering spleen, defined as a spleen without its usual peritoneal attachments, is a rare entity. We report a 34-year-old woman with acute abdomen due to torsion of the long vascular pedicle of a wandering spleen, displaced in the abdominal cavity, and ...
Baradaran Hossein +3 more
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Laparoscopic splenectomy of a wandering spleen with coincidental enormous splenomegaly
GMS Interdisciplinary Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery DGPW, 2012 Ectopy of the spleen also referred to as wandering spleen is a rare condition and preferentially treated by laparoscopic splenopexy. However, in complicated cases with torsion and consecutive infarction of the spleen splenectomy is required.
Lemke, Johannes +4 more
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Journal of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology, 2022 Wandering spleen is a rare entity, wherein the spleen is attached only by an elongated vascular pedicle, predisposing it to complications like hilar torsion, infarction, rupture, etc.
Manohar Kachare, Pooja Jaisinghani
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Torsion of a wandering spleen in an adolescent with Gaucher disease
The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2017 A wandering spleen is a rare condition characterized by the malposition of the spleen due to laxity or absence of its supporting ligaments. Although Gaucher disease generally presents with massive splenomegaly, which one of the predisposing causes of a ...
Şükrü Güngör +4 more
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Acute presentation of pediatric splenic torsion
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2019 Wandering spleen is a rare condition that is a result of congenital splenic hypermobility due to an abnormality or absence of the normal splenic ligamentous attachments [1].
Logan M. Bond +3 more
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Diagnosis of leukemia and aplastic anemia by the bone marrow culture [PDF]
, 1956 1) As the boundary of the outgrowth zone of the bone marrow culture is sharply defined from the surrounding area and the cellular density becomes very high in leukemia, diagnosis can be made with ease and certainty.
Hattori, Yoshiyuki +2 more
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Infeluences of adrenalin, cortisone and ACTH on eosinophils in bone marrow tissue culture (With some suggestions for examining the anterior pituitary function) [PDF]
, 1960 1. Adrenalin, when acting directly on eosinophils, brings about a diminution in the wandering velocity of eosinophils but it has no influence on the number of the cells.
Yamamoto, Sinro
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Suppression of antibody formation by the reticuloendothelial (RES)-blockade. I. Effects of the RES-blockade with macromolecular polyvinyl pyrrolidone [PDF]
, 1968 For the purpose of revealing the role of the reticuloendothelial system (RES) for the antibody formation, the rats which received the repeated intraperitoneal and subcutaneous injections of a vast amount of PVP were challenged by bovine serum albumin ...
Ohbuchi, Shinji
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