Intrathoracic splenosis presenting as persistent chest pain

Thoracic splenosis is a rare entity resulting from splenic and diaphragmatic injury. Patients remain asymptomatic, and surgical intervention is not indicated in the majority of cases. We report a case of a 50-year-old male with a history of splenectomy due to a gunshot wound 30 years previously who...

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Autores principales: Fukuhara, Shinichi, Tyagi, Samuel, Yun, Jaime, Karpeh, Martin, Reyes, Angelo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22958283
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-84
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author Fukuhara, Shinichi
Tyagi, Samuel
Yun, Jaime
Karpeh, Martin
Reyes, Angelo
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description Thoracic splenosis is a rare entity resulting from splenic and diaphragmatic injury. Patients remain asymptomatic, and surgical intervention is not indicated in the majority of cases. We report a case of a 50-year-old male with a history of splenectomy due to a gunshot wound 30 years previously who presented with vague, progressively worsening chest pain. He was found to have a large intrathoracic splenosis. Unique features of our patient include the presence of symptoms, the significant interval growth of the splenic tissue, and the unprecedented size of the mass, which we believe to be the largest among those previously described.
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spelling pubmed-34443402012-09-18 Intrathoracic splenosis presenting as persistent chest pain Fukuhara, Shinichi Tyagi, Samuel Yun, Jaime Karpeh, Martin Reyes, Angelo J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Thoracic splenosis is a rare entity resulting from splenic and diaphragmatic injury. Patients remain asymptomatic, and surgical intervention is not indicated in the majority of cases. We report a case of a 50-year-old male with a history of splenectomy due to a gunshot wound 30 years previously who presented with vague, progressively worsening chest pain. He was found to have a large intrathoracic splenosis. Unique features of our patient include the presence of symptoms, the significant interval growth of the splenic tissue, and the unprecedented size of the mass, which we believe to be the largest among those previously described. BioMed Central 2012-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3444340/ /pubmed/22958283 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-84 Text en Copyright ©2012 Fukuhara et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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