Anesthesia in a 12 year old boy with somatic overgrowth secondary to pericentric inversion of chromosome 12.

The management of a splenectomy in a boy with an unusual form of somatic overgrowth is presented. Except for a moderately difficult airway, no unusual reactions to anesthesia and surgery were encountered. Possible anesthetic implications of different somatic overgrowth syndromes in children are presented.