Ömer Yoldaş1, Türker Karabuğa1, İsmail Özsan1, Erkan Şahin2, Önder Limon3, Ünal Aydın1

1Department of General Surgery, İzmir University School of Medicine, Medicalpark Hospital, İzmir, Turkey
2Department of Radiology, İzmir University School of Medicine, Medicalpark Hospital, İzmir, Turkey
3Department of Emergency Medicine, İzmir University School of Medicine, Medicalpark Hospital, İzmir, Turkey

Abstract

Wandering spleen is a rare condition with a reported incidence of less than 0.5% in which the spleen migrates from its normal anatomical location to any other position in the abdomen. Women constitute 80% of cases and one third of the overall patients are children. It has different clinical presentations such as asymptomatic, painless mass in the abdomen, intermittent abdominal pain and acute abdomen due to torsion of the vascular pedicle. Here we present a case of wandering spleen causing chronic pelvic pain. Laparoscopic splenopexy was the treatment choice but it could not be performed due to huge size of the wandering spleen.

Keywords: Laparoscopy, splenectomy, wandering


 

Peer Review

Externally peer-reviewed.

Author Contributions

Concept - İ.Ö., T.K.; Funding - Ö.L.; Writer - Ö.Y.; Critical Review - Ü.A.; Other - E.Ş.

Conflict of Interest

No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.

Financial Disclosure

The authors declared that this study has received no financial support.