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Case Reports
. 2018 Aug 16:2018:bcr2018224917.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2018-224917.

Wandering spleen caused by subcapsular haemorrhage

Christine M Kariya  1   2 , Daniel H Fowler  3 , Pamela Stratton  4
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Case Reports

Wandering spleen caused by subcapsular haemorrhage

Christine M Kariya et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: general surgery; oncology; radiology.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Abdominal axial CT scan from 7 years prior demonstrating the spleen (arrow) in its normal anatomic position in the left upper quadrant.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Preoperative axial CT demonstrating the absence of the spleen in the left upper quadrant.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Coronal reconstruction of the preoperative CT scan (figure 2) showing the spleen in the pelvis (arrow) with a large subcapsular haematoma.
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