Wandering spleen: A rare cause of mesenteroaxial gastric volvulus

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 20, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 878-880

  Qazi, Abid ^a   Awadalla, Sami ^a  

^a NORTH WEST ARMED FORCES HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Fluoroscopy; Gastric volvulus; Wandering spleen

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEWING GUM; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; INGESTION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN DISEASE; STOMACH SURGERY; STOMACH VOLVULUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WANDERING SPLEEN;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; SPLEEN; STOMACH; STOMACH VOLVULUS;

EID: 13444273195     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-004-1157-z     Document Type: Article

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