Abstract:Post-traumatic torsion of wondering spleen is extremely rare cause of acute abdominal pain in children with only few cases reported. We report a case of a 9-year-old boy with wandering spleen torsion after bike crash and subacute clinical presentation. After a bicycle crash and a period of persistent fever family physician performed an ultrasound of abdomen which showed a round focal lesion of 10 x 12 cm in size, a spleen-like echogenicity in the middlelower abdominal position and in the small pelvis, which ra… Show more
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