title: ["Wandering spleen": preoperative diagnosis by echotomography of the abdomen (review of the literature and report of a case)].
abstract: Splenic wandering is a rare condition of upset position of spleen, due to congenital fault or to excessive looseness of the supporting apparatus of this organ. The literature reports about 180 cases thereof, few of which recognized as such before operation. Ultimate investigations, in this limited number of preoperative diagnoses, resulted angiography and hepato-splenic scintigraphy; only three times the diagnosis was correctly placed through ultra-sounds. The authors show a case, confirmed by the operative report, where the ultrasonic test allowed to place the diagnosis with certainty, and, due to a particular lot of circumstances, proved to be better than TAC.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D013154:Spleen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: "Wandering spleen": diagnosi pre-operatoria mediante ecotomografia dell'addome (revisione della letteratura e communicazione di un caso).