title: Enlarged wandering spleen treated with hemisplenectomy and fixation of the residual spleen.
abstract: A case of enlarged wandering spleen presenting as an abdominal mass in a 7-year-old girl is reported. The diagnosis was performed by ultrasonography and confirmed by aortography. Treatment consisted of an elective partial splenectomy and fixation of the residual spleen to the left hemidiaphragm. The patient's symptoms regressed, and now, after more than 2 years, she is doing well. Two years postoperatively scintigraphy demonstrated a good captation of radionuclide by a normal-sized spleen at the left hypochondrium. The results obtained with the procedure that was adopted for treating this case of wandering spleen allow the authors to state that hemispleen fixation is a valid option for treating symptomatic enlarged wandering spleen.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Surgery, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Graecia University, Via Tommaso Campanella 115, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy. ciroesp2@unicz.it
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Esposito
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Settimi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Centonze
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Damiano
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maglio
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Esposito
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D013156:Splenectomy