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[Splenic cyst during pregnancy: a rare disease with difficult management]

J-A Hamm1, M Deloménie, E Derniaux

  • 1Maternité Alix-de-Champagne, CHU de Reims, 45, rue Cognacq-Jay, 51092 Reims cedex, France. julie.amandine.hamm@gmail.com

Journal De Gynecologie, Obstetrique Et Biologie De La Reproduction
|December 26, 2012
PubMed

Maternal splenic cyst during pregnancy seems to be a rare disease whose treatment is not codified. The most feared complication of these cysts is the rupture. In case of rupture, 60% of cases occur during the third trimester of pregnancy and result in a significant maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. We examine the two main modes of treatment used nowadays: surgical splenectomy or radiological drainage.

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