title: Recurrent acute pancreatitis: an additional manifestation of the "wandering spleen" syndrome".
abstract: A case of "wandering spleen" associated with recurrent pancreatitis and diagnosed with computed tomography (CT), is reported. The entity was also associated with a rotated, distended stomach, gastric outlet obstruction secondary to extrinsic compression of the duodenum, and partial small bowel obstruction secondary to extrinsic compression of a mobile, distended cecum that lay under the right diaphragm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Menken
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Jacobson
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lombardo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kazam
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Barie
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D017219:Gastric Outlet Obstruction / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000150:complications; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000150:complications; D012008:Recurrence; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed