Solitary splenosis mimicking retroperitoneal tumor: a case report
Wen-Jia Liu, Qing-Da Wang, Lou-Zong Sun, Gui-Gang Qiu, Nan Yang · 2026
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Description
Wen-Jia Liu and four co-authors describe a woman whose harmless splenic tissue was mistaken for a tumor behind the abdomen. Splenosis occurs when spleen fragments seed themselves after injury or removal of the organ. A single deposit near the kidney is extremely rare.
The thirty-eight-year-old patient had lost her spleen in trauma six years earlier and arrived with abdominal pain. Scans found gallstones plus a small solid mass above her right kidney, first read as a growth. Surgeons removed it, and pathology showed splenic tissue instead. The authors urge doctors to consider splenosis in such patients. A special scan can confirm it before surgery.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wen-Jia Liu, Qing-Da Wang, Lou-Zong Sun, Gui-Gang Qiu, Nan Yang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |