ABSTRACT
Accessory spleens are frequent entities, but their infarction due to arterial stasis caused by segmental portal hypertension is extremely rare. We present this case of a 38-year-old female patient with a three-week history of abdominal pain and an abdominal CT scan revealing a 7 cm mass near the spleen and tail of pancreas with segmental portal hypertension. The patient had no hematologic disease. This mass was surgically resected, with a pathological diagnosis of an infarcted accessory spleen.
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Hypertension, Portal/complications , Spleen/abnormalities , Splenic Infarction/etiology , Abdominal Pain/etiology , Adult , Female , Humans , Spleen/surgery , Splenic Infarction/diagnosis , Splenic Infarction/surgery , Venous Thrombosis/diagnosisABSTRACT
In this report the authors describe the imaging features of subacute and chronic radiation enteritis in two patients. Although surgery remains the definitive treatment of complicated chronic radiation enteritis, the potential role of interventional techniques that can be used for management of poor surgical candidates is discussed.
