Right abdominal mass in a 2 year-old child.
The authors report a case of a wandering spleen presenting as a right lower quadrant abdominal mass, 2 years post a transabdominal left diaphragmatic hernia repair in a 2-year-old child with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. The wandering spleen was fixed laparoscopically in an extraperitoneal pouch.
Department of Internal Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. c.a.parisinos@gmail.com
Constantinos A
CA
Parisinos
Ibrahim
I
Matter
Jeorge G
JG
Mogilner
Mark A
MA
Rodrigues
Nadav
N
Slijper
D002675:Child, Preschool; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D065630:Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital; D006801:Humans; D050805:Wandering Spleen / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery