Intrapancreatic accessory spleen: a rare cause of recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura

Accessory splenectomy should be considered in any patient with recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura, if studies (scintigraphy using heat‐damaged Tc99m‐labeled red blood cells) are suggestive of residual functional splenic tissue. The most common benefit after removal of accessory spleen see...

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Autores principales: García Angarita, Francisco, Sanjuanbenito Dehesa, Alfonso
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27761250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.642
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author García Angarita, Francisco
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description Accessory splenectomy should be considered in any patient with recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura, if studies (scintigraphy using heat‐damaged Tc99m‐labeled red blood cells) are suggestive of residual functional splenic tissue. The most common benefit after removal of accessory spleen seems to be the reduction of dose in medical treatment.
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spelling pubmed-50544742016-10-19 Intrapancreatic accessory spleen: a rare cause of recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura García Angarita, Francisco Sanjuanbenito Dehesa, Alfonso Clin Case Rep Case Reports Accessory splenectomy should be considered in any patient with recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura, if studies (scintigraphy using heat‐damaged Tc99m‐labeled red blood cells) are suggestive of residual functional splenic tissue. The most common benefit after removal of accessory spleen seems to be the reduction of dose in medical treatment. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5054474/ /pubmed/27761250 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.642 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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title Intrapancreatic accessory spleen: a rare cause of recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura
title_full Intrapancreatic accessory spleen: a rare cause of recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura
title_fullStr Intrapancreatic accessory spleen: a rare cause of recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura
title_full_unstemmed Intrapancreatic accessory spleen: a rare cause of recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura
title_short Intrapancreatic accessory spleen: a rare cause of recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura
title_sort intrapancreatic accessory spleen: a rare cause of recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054474/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.642
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