Splenosis is a common finding after traumatic rupture of the spleen or therapeutic splenectomy, defined as a heterotopic autotransplantation of the spleen in peritoneal cavity and surface. In splenectomized patients due to hematologic disease, splenosis can lead to disease recurrence. We present a case of splenosis in a patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura who relapsed after splenec...

The authors report a case of thoracic splenosis, which is the autotransplantation of splenic tissue into the pleural cavity. Splenosis in the chest is a rare entity and most often an incidental finding on chest computed tomography, typically showing solitary or multiple well-defined, noncalcified pleural nodules of variable size in the left hemithorax. It is important to include this benign pat...

Splenosis is a common finding after traumatic rupture of the spleen or therapeutic splenectomy, defined as a heterotopic autotransplantation of the spleen in peritoneal cavity and surface. In splenectomized patients due to hematologic disease, splenosis can lead to disease recurrence. We present a case of splenosis in a patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura who relapsed after splenec...

A 54 year old man was referred to our hospital with gastric cancer. The patient had a history of splenectomy and a left nephrectomy as a result of a traffic accident 15 years earlier. The endoscopic findings were advanced gastric cancer at the lower body of the stomach. Abdominal ultrasonography (USG) and magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a metastatic nodule in the S2 segment of the liver...

INTRODUCTION Splenosis represents the heterotopic autotransplantation of splenic tissue after a traumatic splenic rupture and splenectomy. It is not a rare condition and it is estimated to occur in up to 67% of patients with traumatic splenic rupture. CASE REPORT We report one case of patient, affected by non alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), with a hypervascularised liver lesion, that the fi...

Thoracic splenosis is rare and consists of ectopic implantation of splenic tissue into the chest after concomitant thoracic and abdominal trauma with diaphragm injury. It occurs in about 18% of cases of splenic ruptures. In almost all cases, diagnosis is given incidentally once patients are usually asymptomatic. Thoracic splenosis should be considered as a differential diagnosis in all patients...

Abstract Splenosis is a benign and rare condition that usually caused by trauma or splenectomy other procedures involving splenic tissue. The patient asymptomatic often diagnosed incidentally especially when presents as intrahepatic lesion, can be misdiagnosed neoplasm. Here, we present case report of 56-year-old male patient, who was detected to have focal liver lesion on routine ultrasound ch...

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...

Ectopic splenic tissue can present as accessory spleens and splenosis. While accessory spleens are congenital and more common; splenosis occurs as a result of implantation of splenic tissue as a result of trauma or iatrogenic injury. Only up to 40 intrathoracic splenosis have been reported in the English language literature to date. Here we discuss a case in which Para oesophageal pre-aortic ec...

Diagnosis of abdominal splenosis is often undiagnosed until treatment for splenic rupture or splenectomy. This report describes a patient with splenosis mimicking hepatic tumor. The patient had a history of splenic trauma with splenectomy and chronic hepatitis C. After routine abdominal ultrasound revealed a liver nodule, further imaging studies, including magnetic resonance imaging, computed t...