Paediatric wandering spleens in Malawi.

A wandering spleen presenting as a pelvic mass: case report and review of the literature.

Wandering spleens are rare clinical entities found more commonly in females. We report a young female patient found to harbour a pelvic spleen. The literature regarding this rare ectopia is reviewed. The wandering spleen should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pelvic masses.

Development of a subspecialty cardiology curriculum for paediatric registrars in Malawi: Implementation of a long-distance hybrid model.

BACKGROUND Malawi has a high burden of paediatric cardiac disease but a limited number of health providers familiar with these chronic diseases. Given the rising number of Malawian postgraduate paediatric trainees at the University of Malawi College of Medicine, we sought to remedy this lack of basic cardiology training with a long-distance, module-based curriculum that could be utilised indepe...

A paediatric HIV care and treatment programme in Malawi.

MR Images of Infarction of Wandering Spleen Associated with Intestinal Non-rotation

Wandering spleen is a rare clinical condition characterized by ectopic position of the spleen due to abnormal peritoneal attachments including the lienorenal and gastrosplenic ligaments (1). Wandering spleen and intestinal malrotation share a common cause: the absence of an intraperitoneal visceral ligament (2). Wandering spleen presents a wide range of clinical manifestations, from incidental ...

Wandering spleen: case report.

Wandering spleens are rare clinical entities found more commonly in women aged 20-40 years. We report one such case found in a 24-year-old nulliparous woman who presented with low abdominal pains of sudden onset and splenomegaly. An emergency abdominal CT scan showed an enlarged spleen located in the right lumbar region and extending into the pelvis. There was a long splenic pedicle containing ...