RESUMEN
Polysplenia syndrome (PS) is usually discovered in symptomatic patients in association with congenital heart disease or biliary atresia. Asymptomatic patients can present associated anomalies of the digestive tract such as intestinal malrotation and gastric or splenic malfixation. We report a case of PS presenting as a left flank mass shown to be an accessory spleen by denatured red blood cell scintigraphy. Upper gastrointestinal tract studies showed intestinal malrotation. Laparoscopic exploration confirmed intestinal malrotation and showed the absence of fixation of the accessory spleen. We performed a laparoscopic Ladd's procedure followed by fixation of the accessory spleen and resection of Meckel's diverticulum through a short left-flank incision.
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Duodeno/anomalías , Laparoscopía , Bazo/anomalías , Niño , Femenino , Humanos , Divertículo Ileal/cirugía , Bazo/diagnóstico por imagen , Síndrome , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X , UltrasonografíaRESUMEN
The authors report 42 infectious perforations of terminal ileum operated at the National Hospital of Nouakchott (Islamic Republic of Mauritania) from 1985 to 1988. The main etiology is typhic (67 p.c.). The mortality is important (21 p.c.). The standardization of medico-surgical treatment and the use of cotromoxazole open the way to a better prognosis, but differed diagnosis and socio-economical conditions are some burdens, common to developing countries that have to be taken into consideration.