title: Interest of laparoscopy in polysplenia syndrome.
abstract: Polysplenia syndrome (PS) is usually discovered in symptomatic patients in association with congenital heart disease or biliary atresia. Asymptomatic patients can present associated anomalies of the digestive tract such as intestinal malrotation and gastric or splenic malfixation. We report a case of PS presenting as a left flank mass shown to be an accessory spleen by denatured red blood cell scintigraphy. Upper gastrointestinal tract studies showed intestinal malrotation. Laparoscopic exploration confirmed intestinal malrotation and showed the absence of fixation of the accessory spleen. We performed a laparoscopic Ladd's procedure followed by fixation of the accessory spleen and resection of Meckel's diverticulum through a short left-flank incision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Départemental Félix Guyon, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Harper
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Michel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hameury
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De Napoli-Cocci
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Udomkaewkanjana
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gruau
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: De Clermont
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bechonnet
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004386:Duodenum / Q000002:abnormalities*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008467:Meckel Diverticulum / Q000601:surgery; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography