[Diagnosis and treatment of splenic pseudocysts]

Seven patients with pseudocysts of the spleen were treated in the clinic of the 2nd chair of surgical diseases of the Riga Medical Institute. The cysts in all of them lacked characteristic signs and were recognized late, when they had grown to a large size. Ultrasonic examination and computerized tomography played the main role in establishing the diagnosis. The pseudocysts of the spleen were treated by surgery. In large cysts splenectomy was the operation of choice, though organ-preserving operations (enucleation of the cyst, resection of the spleen) were suggested.