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Application of Laparoscopic Partial Splenectomy with Total Blood Flow Occlusion in Benign Splenic Lesions
Published on: December 20, 2024
[Splenomegaly with multiple unclear parenchymal lesions. Splenomegaly]
U Schedelbeck1, S Gattenlöhner, D Hahn
1Institut für Röntgendiagnostik, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Oberdürrbacherstr. 6, 97080 Würzburg. schedelbeck@roentgen.uni-wuerzburg.de
Abstract:
A 53-year-old female patient presented with splenomegaly, uncertain lesions of the spleen, pancytopenia and suspected aortitis. Reduced strength and muscular pain but no B symptoms were also present. Alterations of the spleen had been known for a long time. Blood examination, laboratory tests and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed an aortitis. Concerning the splenic changes neither ultrasound nor MRI could provide conclusive or even pathognomonic findings. Because of an existing pancytopenia and diagnostic obscurity, the patient underwent splenectomy. The histological diagnosis was finally concluded as multifocal littoral cell angioma.
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