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Mesothelial cyst of the spleen mimicking a metastasis: a case report

Mesothelial cyst of the spleen is a developmental disorder. Previous reports have elaborated on the radiological features of splenic mesothelial cysts as being unilocular with a smooth and well-defined margin. However, due to its rarity, it is unclear whether these characteristics are representative...

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Autores principales: Park, Mihyeon, Lee, Jisun, Kim, Yook, Choi, Chi-Hoon, Park, Kil Sun
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8293851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34275373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605211031736
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author Park, Mihyeon
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Park, Kil Sun
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description Mesothelial cyst of the spleen is a developmental disorder. Previous reports have elaborated on the radiological features of splenic mesothelial cysts as being unilocular with a smooth and well-defined margin. However, due to its rarity, it is unclear whether these characteristics are representative and specific for the diagnosis of mesothelial cysts. Herein, this case report presents an atypical case of splenic mesothelial cyst mimicking a malignant tumour, especially splenic metastasis in a 66-year-old woman with ascending colon cancer. Due to an overlapping imaging finding of hypodense splenic lesions, and considering the clinical history, a mesothelial cyst that developed as a multilocular hypodense mass from an ill-defined small nodule was inevitably misdiagnosed as metastasis. Although rare, it is important to consider the possibility of mesothelial cyst in a patient with multilocular hypodense lesions of the spleen.
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spelling pubmed-82938512021-08-03 Mesothelial cyst of the spleen mimicking a metastasis: a case report Park, Mihyeon Lee, Jisun Kim, Yook Choi, Chi-Hoon Park, Kil Sun J Int Med Res Case Reports Mesothelial cyst of the spleen is a developmental disorder. Previous reports have elaborated on the radiological features of splenic mesothelial cysts as being unilocular with a smooth and well-defined margin. However, due to its rarity, it is unclear whether these characteristics are representative and specific for the diagnosis of mesothelial cysts. Herein, this case report presents an atypical case of splenic mesothelial cyst mimicking a malignant tumour, especially splenic metastasis in a 66-year-old woman with ascending colon cancer. Due to an overlapping imaging finding of hypodense splenic lesions, and considering the clinical history, a mesothelial cyst that developed as a multilocular hypodense mass from an ill-defined small nodule was inevitably misdiagnosed as metastasis. Although rare, it is important to consider the possibility of mesothelial cyst in a patient with multilocular hypodense lesions of the spleen. SAGE Publications 2021-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8293851/ /pubmed/34275373 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605211031736 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title Mesothelial cyst of the spleen mimicking a metastasis: a case report
title_full Mesothelial cyst of the spleen mimicking a metastasis: a case report
title_fullStr Mesothelial cyst of the spleen mimicking a metastasis: a case report
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title_short Mesothelial cyst of the spleen mimicking a metastasis: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8293851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34275373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605211031736
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