Wandering spleen in childhood: A report of three cases

Surgery Today

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1086-1088

  Sarimurat, Nüvit ^a   Tekant, Gonca Topuzlu ^a   Hüseyin, Sabahattin ^a   Söylet, Yunus ^a   Şenyüz, Osman Faruk ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Splenectomy; Splenopexy; Wandering spleen

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; NAUSEA; RETROPERITONEUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN DISEASE; VOMITING;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES; TORSION;

EID: 0030731255     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02385795     Document Type: Article

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