[Sonography in the diagnosis of an unusual splenic tumor]

The authors report on an unusual cystic giant tumour of the spleen (a necrotically disintegrating non-Hodgkin lymphoma) which was examined via sonography, scintigraphy and angiography. The information obtained by means of the individual examination methods was compared with each other, taking the findings of anatomic pathology as basis. In the case under discussion sonography supplied the best possible information on the morphology of the tumour. The importance of sonography in arriving at the differential diagnosis of cystic (or pseudocystic) space-occupying growths is discussed.