Acute Abdominal Pain due to Accessory Splenic Infarction in an Adult: A Case Report
Accessory spleens are common congenital anatomic variations that are usually asymptomatic. On the other hand, they can be clinically significant if complicated by hemorrhage, torsion, or infarction. This paper describes a case of an infarcted accessory spleen in a 30-year-old male who presented wi...
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| description | Accessory spleens are common congenital anatomic variations that are usually asymptomatic. On the other hand, they can be clinically
significant if complicated by hemorrhage, torsion, or infarction. This paper describes a case of an infarcted accessory spleen in a
30-year-old male who presented with abdominal pain. Abdominal CT and MRI revealed an isolated mass, 4.5 cm in size, in the perisplenic
area. An infarcted accessory spleen was suspected. The patient underwent laparoscopic accessory splenectomy. Histopathology identified
the mass as splenic tissue that had undergone ischemic necrosis. A definitive diagnosis of an infarcted accessory spleen was
made, and the patient was discharged on day 5 after surgery symptom-free. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de969d9083a84d3393ab7272a8f315442022-12-22T03:18:26ZengJin Publishing & Printing Co.The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology1598-99922233-68692021-09-0178318318710.4166/kjg.2021.071Acute Abdominal Pain due to Accessory Splenic Infarction in an Adult: A Case ReportHoyoung Wang0Hoonsub So1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8092-2811Yang Won Nah2 Misung Kim3Tae Young Lee4 Minjung Seo5Sung-Jo Bang6Departments of Internal Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, KoreaDepartments of Internal Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, KoreaDepartments of Surgery, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, KoreaDepartments of Pathology, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, KoreaDepartments of Radiology, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, KoreaDepartments of Nuclear Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, KoreaDepartments of Internal Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, KoreaAccessory spleens are common congenital anatomic variations that are usually asymptomatic. On the other hand, they can be clinically significant if complicated by hemorrhage, torsion, or infarction. This paper describes a case of an infarcted accessory spleen in a 30-year-old male who presented with abdominal pain. Abdominal CT and MRI revealed an isolated mass, 4.5 cm in size, in the perisplenic area. An infarcted accessory spleen was suspected. The patient underwent laparoscopic accessory splenectomy. Histopathology identified the mass as splenic tissue that had undergone ischemic necrosis. A definitive diagnosis of an infarcted accessory spleen was made, and the patient was discharged on day 5 after surgery symptom-free.https://www.kjg.or.kr/journal/view.html?uid=5748&vmd=Fullabdominal painanatomic variationsplenic infarctionsplenectomy |
| spellingShingle | Hoyoung Wang Hoonsub So Yang Won Nah Misung Kim Tae Young Lee Minjung Seo Sung-Jo Bang Acute Abdominal Pain due to Accessory Splenic Infarction in an Adult: A Case Report The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology abdominal pain anatomic variation splenic infarction splenectomy |
| title | Acute Abdominal Pain due to Accessory Splenic Infarction in an Adult: A Case Report |
| title_full | Acute Abdominal Pain due to Accessory Splenic Infarction in an Adult: A Case Report |
| title_fullStr | Acute Abdominal Pain due to Accessory Splenic Infarction in an Adult: A Case Report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Acute Abdominal Pain due to Accessory Splenic Infarction in an Adult: A Case Report |
| title_short | Acute Abdominal Pain due to Accessory Splenic Infarction in an Adult: A Case Report |
| title_sort | acute abdominal pain due to accessory splenic infarction in an adult a case report |
| topic | abdominal pain anatomic variation splenic infarction splenectomy |
| url | https://www.kjg.or.kr/journal/view.html?uid=5748&vmd=Full |
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