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[Thoracic splenosis]
M D Destable1, J Azorin, J L Moreau
1Service de Chirurgie, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny.
Revue De Pneumologie Clinique
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Thoracic splenosis is the autotransplantation of splenic tissue in the thorax after an injury of the spleen with a tear of the hemi-diaphragm. Usually, there is no symptom and it is unfrequent. A scintigraphy with 99 m. Tc. sulfur colloid and a scan with 99 m. Tc. tagged-heated red cells give the diagnosis. For now, it is no necessary to operate these patients to remove these thoracic nodules.