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[Value of peroperative scintigraphy in detecting accessory spleens]
A Sezeur1, C L De Labriolle-Vaylet, L Douay
1Service de Chirurgie digestive et générale, hôpital Rothschild, Paris.
Presse Medicale (Paris, France : 1983)
|June 9, 1990
Abstract:
We report a case of accessory spleen, 1 cm in diameter, responsible for recurrence of an idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura after splenectomy. This case is original in that the accessory spleen could only be detected by transoperative scintigraphy. Transoperative scintigraphy is a simple method to be used when one or several unrecognized accessory spleens are responsible for recurrence of a blood disease after excision of the principal spleen.