Perihepatic splenosis simulating a focal liver lesion in a patient with chronic hepatitis C
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Perihepatic splenosis simulating a focal liver lesion in a patient with chronic hepatitis C.
Splenosis is an infrequent acquired condition in which nodules of splenic tissue are transplanted in the peritoneal cavity due to splenic trauma or splenectomy (1). These patients have usually multiple splenic implants in the abdomen ranging from several millimeters up to 7 cm in size (1). The vast majority of such patients are asymptomatic and the lesions are discovered as incidental finding a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1130-0108
DOI: 10.4321/s1130-01082013000700013