[Wandering spleen torsion].
The ectopic spleen characterizes for absence of its suspensory ligaments and a long pedicle that are predisposed to complicate it for a torsion with commitment of the venous drainage at first and arterial at a later time himself, producing increase of its volume and infarct. This anomalous situation, it can be had to a congenital malformation of the development of its suspensory elements and fall toward the inferior abdomen or else to an inferior growth of the mesodermic yolk of that this organ originates itself. The suitable treatment is the laparoscopic splenopexy, but when it exists infarction, it is no possible avoid the splenectomy.
Hernández-Siverio
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N
Servicio de Cirugía Infantil, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife. nhsiverio@hecit.es
Barranco Moreno
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A
Pérez Palma
J
J
Herrera
I
I
Díaz Flores
L
L
González Espinosa
C
C
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D011859:Radiography; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000196:embryology; D013156:Splenectomy; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D013159:Splenic Infarction / Q000601:surgery; D014102:Torsion Abnormality / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery