Inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen: a case report.
Inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen: a case report.
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脾脏炎性假瘤:病例报告。
DOI:
10.1093/jjco/hyd048
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Y. Monobe
中科院分区:
文献类型:
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作者:
Hirofumi Noguchi;Hidenori Kondo;Masami Kondo;M. Shiraiwa;Y. Monobe
We report on an inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen. A 72-year-old woman visited our hospital complaining of nausea. Physical examination and laboratory investigations were unremarkable. Ultrasonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and angiography showed a hypovascular splenic mass measuring about 5 cm in diameter with a calcification in the center of the lesion. Splenectomy was performed. The removed spleen, weighing 145 g, contained a tan-white, circumscribed mass, measuring 6.2 x 5.5 x 5.3 cm. Histologically, the splenic mass was composed of an admixture of inflammatory cellular elements, predominantly plasma cells and lymphocytes with hyalinization, fibrosis, lymph follicles and multinuclear giant cells, suggestive of a inflammatory pseudotumor. The patient is currently alive and asymptomatic, 24 months after surgery. Inflammatory pseudotumors of the spleen are extremely rare and only 39 cases have been reported in the medical literature.