A Case of Congenital Asplenia Syndrome. |
Hyung Sook Kim, Jin Soo Cho, Sung Kee Jim, Doo Sung Moon, kyung Sook Cho, Jong Dae Cho |
Department of Pediatries, Maliknol Hospital |
선천성 무비장 증후군 1례 |
김현숙, 조진수, 진성기, 문두성, 조경숙, 조종대 |
메리놀병원 소아과 |
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Abstract |
Department of Pediatrics, Maliknol Hospital
The congenital asplenia syndrome is very rarely seen and is characterized by congenital absence of
the spleen, usually associated with other groups of cardio-vascular, bronchopulmonary and gastrointestinal tract.
The authors recently experienced a case of congenital asplenia syndrome in a 6 month-old, male infant.
He has no splenic image by using 99m Technetium-sulfur scanning.
He also had common atrioventricular canal, ventricular septal defect, transposition of great
arteries and pulmonary stenosis in the two dimensional echocardiographic study.
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Key Words:
Asplenia syndrome.
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