UNUSUAL SPLEEN CASES

Cases of Ruptured Spleen

Post-mortem.?Body well nourished ; rigor-mortis pretty well marked ; right hand clenched. Chest.?All the ribs in the left side fractured ; some of tliem were fractured in two or three places. Of the fractures which occurred in the shaft, three pierced the pleura and wounded the lung. On the right side, the 2nd, 3rd, 4tli, 5th, and 6th ribs were fractured about two inches from the sternal end ; ...

Occult ruptured spleen--two unusual clinical presentations.

Case reports of two patients with occult rupture of the spleen are presented. In one, blunt trauma appeared to involve only the neck and upper chest, resulting in two distinct tracheal injuries and no clinical indication of abdominal injury. On the 5th day after injury this patient strangulated an indirect inguinal hernia. At subsequent surgery, a ruptured spleen was also found. The second pati...

Unusual cases of Theileria annulata infection in calves

Unusual presentation of gestational trophoblastic neoplasm: Report of two cases

  Abstract: Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasm (GTN) is among rare human tumors which can be observed with widespread metastasis. Two young patients with emergent neurologic symptoms with no gynecological problems are presented in this report. GTN was later diagnosed in both cases with brain metastasis. The first case: A 22 years old patient, admitted to the infectious disease ward, with probab...

Wandering spleen: Report of two cases

Wandering spleen is a rare clinical condition which presents with a variety of symptoms with abdominal pain, abdominal mass, and acute abdomen. It may also remain silent until diagnosed by a routine imaging study. Treatment options may differ depending on the presenting clinical picture. Herein we present two cases of wandering spleen treated by splenectomy, with one of them admitted to our eme...