Splenic Pseudocyst Associated with Hypersplenism |
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| Authors: | YVES JANIN MD RICHARD STRAUSS MD SEYMOUR KATZ MD FACG NORBERT PALTT MD IRWIN KATZKA MD FACG LESLIE WISE MD |
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| Institution: | Departments of Surgery, Medicine and Pathology, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, and The Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook. |
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| Abstract: | A patient with hypersplenism, who was found to have a splenic pseudocyst containing an organized hematoma, is described. There are only two patients with splenic pseudocyst and hypersplenism and an additional two patients with splenic cysts and hypersplenism reported in the world literature. The hypersplenism associated with splenic cysts and pseudocysts is explained on the basis of an expansion of the plasma volume and the total blood volume, an increased destruction of red blood cells and a pooling of blood in the enlarged spleen. The combined use of ultrasonography and computerized tomography has increased the accuracy of noninvasive diagnosis and made more invasive examinations unnecessary. When the ultrasound is technically unsuccessful or when it shows a mixed echo pattern, one should resort to computerized tomography with which it is possible, almost invariably, to differentiate between cysts and neoplasms. |
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