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One patient with a wandering spleen and another with polysplenia syndrome are presented. Both patients suffered from abdominal pain due to partial torsion of the splenic pedicles. Splenopexy rather than splenectomy is the treatment of choice in these patients.
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Bar-Maor, J.A., Sweed, Y. Treatment of intermittent splenic torsion in polysplenia syndrome and wandering spleen by splenopexy. Pediatr Surg Int 4, 130–133 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00181853
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