A case of splenic torsion in a child
Beluffi, L.; Imparato, M.; Rossi, M.
Minerva Medica 70(20): 1467-1472
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4806 PMID: 450285 Document Number: 152690
A case of torsion of the spleen complicated by bowel occlusion occurred in a 3 1/2-yr-old boy is reviewed. Pathogenesis, symptoms and diagnostics are discussed. The rarity of the lesion in childhood is underlined together with the utility, in diagnostics, of plain films of the abdomen taken some hours one from the others.