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Case Reports in Surgery, 2022 Introduction. A wandering spleen is a rare anatomical condition characterized by a free-floating splenic tissue that is not located in its normal position in the left upper quadrant.
Elisa Maienza +2 more
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The wandering spleen: case report of laparoscopic splenectomy in a pregnant woman
Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2022 Background Wandering spleen is a rare condition, which is characterized by augmented mobility of the spleen, due to congenital or acquired causes. It is more frequent in multiparous women, but only a few cases are reported during pregnancy.
Lorenzo Crepaz +4 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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The wandering spleen torsion [PDF]
, 2015 Wandering spleen is the absence of spleen at its normal left upper quadrant. It may be because of increased splenic mobility resulting from laxity or maldevelopment of the suspensary gastrosplenic, splenorenal, and phrenicocolic ligaments.
Kale, Dinkar, Irpatgire, Ravindra N
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Torsion of a wandering spleen [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1985 Summary We present an unusual case of torsion of a wandering spleen in a 14 year old boy. Wandering spleen is an entity which has rarely been reported in infants and children. Although patients may be asymptomatic, some may present as an acute surgical emergency if trauma or torsion of the vascular pedicle occurs, as in our case.
M, Witz +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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대한영상의학회지, 2016 Gastric volvulus, defined as an abnormal rotation of stomach, may be idiopathic or secondary to abnormal fixation of intraperitoneal visceral ligaments.
In Kyung Youn, Young Mi Ku, Su Lim Lee
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