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Avulsion of wandering spleen after traumatic torsion
Seong-Chul Kim1, Dae-Yeon Kim, In-Koo Kim
1Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
|April 5, 2003
Abstract:
Wandering spleen usually causes clinical symptoms by torsion. Cases of torsion or hemorrhage after blunt trauma are reported. The authors experienced avulsion of wandering spleen after traumatic torsion in the victim of pedestrian injury. The spleen had been located in the left upper quadrant on the time of torsion, but it moved into the right paracolic gutter after avulsion. The avulsed spleen was removed, and the postoperative course was uneventful.