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Eric A Breisch¹, Henry F Krous

¹Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital and Health Center, 3020 Children's Way, M5007, San Diego, CA 92123, USA. ebreisc1@san.rr.com

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology : the Official Journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society

|February 18, 2005

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A wandering or ectopic spleen, a rare congenital condition caused by improper fixation of the ligamentous attachments, was identified during a postmortem examination of a 10-month-old female who had died of Streptococcus pneumoniae sepsis. The wandering spleen was autoinfarcted and adherent to the left hepatic lobe, with resultant functional hyposplenism.

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