Patients with gastric volvulus recurrence have high incidence of wandering spleen requiring laparoscopic gastropexy and splenopexy.
Yoichi NakagawaHiroo UchidaHizuru AmanoAkinari HinokiTakahisa TainakaChiyoe ShirotaWataru SumidaKazuki YokotaSatoshi MakitaMasamune OkamotoAitaro TakimotoAkihiro YasuiShunya TakadaDaiki KatoPublished in: Pediatric surgery international (2022)
Laparoscopic gastropexy for gastric volvulus and splenopexy for cases concomitant with wandering spleen were found to be effective surgical approaches. Both PDB and blunt separation methods for making extraperitoneal pockets for the spleen were employed successfully.