Wandering Spleen

Wandering Spleen: A case report

Authors

  • Wadea Saeed Bin Ghouth Department of surgery- Faculty of medicine and health sciences- Hadramout University - Mukalla-Yemen
  • Jamal Omer Bahabara Department of surgery- Faculty of medicine and health sciences- Hadramout University - Mukalla-Yeme

Abstract

Wandering spleen is a rare clinical entity, characterized by splenic hypermobility that results from
elongation or maldevelopment of its suspensory
ligaments. Its rarity and unusual situation of the
spleen prompted led us to report this 55-year-old
female who presented with intermittent abdominal
pain, and misdiagnosed by ultrasound to had an
abdominal mass, for which abdominal CT scan
was done and showed wandering spleen.

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Published

2023-12-13