CASE REPORT
Year : 2013 | Volume
: 1 | Issue : 2 | Page : 53--56
Acute gastric volvulus with torsion wandering spleen: A rare surgical emergency
Jagdish Gupta, Navneet Sharma, Bhavesh Devkaran, Arun Gupta
Department of General Surgery, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Jagdish Gupta
Department of General Surgery, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
India
Gastric volvulus, wandering spleen and eventration of diaphragm share a common pathologic cause of absence or laxity of intraperitoneal ligaments. We hereby present a rare case of a 15-year-old male child with cerebral palsy presenting with organo-axial type of acute gastric volvulus resulting in gangrene of whole of stomach, associated with an infarcted wandering spleen, eventration of the diaphragm and cholelithiasis.
How to cite this article:
Gupta J, Sharma N, Devkaran B, Gupta A. Acute gastric volvulus with torsion wandering spleen: A rare surgical emergency.Saudi Surg J 2013;1:53-56
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Gupta J, Sharma N, Devkaran B, Gupta A. Acute gastric volvulus with torsion wandering spleen: A rare surgical emergency. Saudi Surg J [serial online] 2013 [cited 2021 Mar 1 ];1:53-56
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