PATIENT Female, 45 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Arterio-venous fistula of the splean Symptoms: Lef-side abdominal pain Medication: - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Surgery. OBJECTIVE Rare disease. BACKGROUND Splenic arterial-venous fistula and atrial myxoma are not rare cases but the co-existence of both lesions in the same patient is unpublished so far. CASE REPORT A 45- year-old woman presented w...

Thoraic splenosis is a rare entity after splenic and diaphragmatic injury. We report on a patient who had left pulmonary masses on a routine chest roentgenogram. It was impossible to rule out the possibility of other tumors or malignancies from past history, radiographic findings and needle biopsy. The patient underwent a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The resected tumor was diagnosed as...

Splenic metastasis from colorectal cancers is a very rare occurrence. Few cases have been reported in the literature. We report herein an additionnal case of metachronous splenic metastasis from adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon, 3 years after the diagnosis of the primary tumor. A 62-year old woman presented for regular follow-up after colectomy for sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma. A computed to...

From the Department of General Surgery, Ondokuz Mayis University Medical School, Samsun, Turkey Hydatid disease is endemic in farming areas but occurs worldwide. The most common site of disease is the liver, followed by the lungs, kidney, bones and brain. Other sites such as the heart, spleen, pancreas and muscles are very rarely affected. Splenic hydatid disease has been reported to constitute...

INTRODUCTION Nonparasitic splenic cysts are uncommon clinical entity and because of it, there is no information regarding their optimal surgical treatment. CASE PRESENTATION A 41-years-old female with incidentally diagnosed nonparasitic splenic cyst which initially was asymptomatic. After two years of follow up, the patient underwent surgery; subtotal cystectomy and omentoplasty as an additio...

We describe a 51-year-old-male. Three months after liver transplantation due to hepatitis C virus (HCV) hepatopathy, an HCV relapse was detected, and partial splenic embolization (PSE) was performed prior to antiviral treatment. Eleven days after PSE emergency splenectomy was performed due to the development of a splenic abscess, which is a rare but severe complication of PSE. Between May 2002 ...

Diagnosis of abdominal splenosis is often undiagnosed until treatment for splenic rupture or splenectomy. This report describes a patient with splenosis mimicking hepatic tumor. The patient had a history of splenic trauma with splenectomy and chronic hepatitis C. After routine abdominal ultrasound revealed a liver nodule, further imaging studies, including magnetic resonance imaging, computed t...

Splenic artery embolisation can be performed preoperatively in an attempt to decrease thrombocyte destruction, or as an alternative to surgery, to obtain partial or total organ ablation. During this procedure, it is very important to deliver embolising agents distal to the origin to pancreatic branches to avoid the risk of pancreatitis. Therefore, a detailed knowledge of the anatomy of the sple...

BACKGROUND Postoperative ileus is characterized by a transient impairment of the gastrointestinal motility after abdominal surgery. The intestinal inflammation, triggered by handling of the intestine, is the main factor responsible for the prolonged dysmotility of the gastrointestinal tract. Secondary lymphoid organs of the intestine were identified as essential components in the dissemination ...

ting of hematologic disorders like sickle-cell anemia, leukemia, lymphoma, polycythemia vera and hypercoagulable states like protein C, protein S deficiencies due to clogging of the splenic microcirculation by abnormal cells1. Other conditions include thromboembolic phenomenon like infective endocarditis, atrial fibrillation and postcardiac surgery. In malaria, splenic infarction is a rare comp...