Splenic abscess due to Brucella spp. is extremely rare. We report a case of a splenic abscess due to Brucella spp. in a 61-year-old male patient. Brucella slide and tube agglutination tests (Wright) were positive while blood culture and culture from splenic tissue yielded negative results. The abdominal ultrasonography revealed a hypoechoic intrasplenic mass 15x12 mm in diameter at the middle p...

OBJECTIVES To validate the reliability of nuclear medicine physicians in diagnosing lymphoma using positron emission tomography/computed tomography using 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG-PET/CT) and to determine findings that reliably suggest lymphoma. METHODS Seventy patients suspected of having lymphoma using FDG-PET/CT were enrolled in this retrospective study. Two nuclear medicine phy...

INTRODUCTION Spontaneous splenic rupture is well recognized in the context of hematological malignancies (lymphoproliferative and myeloproliferative disorders); a few case reports have also linked solid tumors, such as pancreatic and liver cancer, with the occurrence of spontaneous splenic rupture. This is the first case report of lung cancer as a likely cause of spontaneous splenic rupture. ...

A series of patients who were found at operation to have sustained splenic rupture is described and their immediate presenting features are detailed. Signs of peritoneal irritation were not always present and patients were not often 'shocked' when first seen. Helpful early signs included a low haemoglobin and pallor. There is a tendency to underestimate the significance of left quadrant pain in...

Introduction
 Splenomegaly is an important finding for many diseases. Splenic long axis greater than eleven cm are investigated and sometimes invasive examinations performed. size may differ depending on the age, gender, body mass index racial differences. The aim of this study to investigate relationship between splenic dimensions volume in patients attended gastroenterology outpatient cl...

Spleen diseases are rare, being splenic abscesses, splenic cysts, benign tumors (hemangioma, lymphangioma and others), and malignant tumors (lymphomas, metastases and others)1. Primary benign tumors of the spleen are extremely rare and account for less than 0.007% of all tumors identified upon surgery and autopsy2. Splenic lymphangiomas (SL) are benign cystic tumors resulting from congenital ma...

The characterization of focal splenic lesions by ultrasound can be quite challenging. The recent introduction of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) has come to play a valuable role in the field of imaging splenic pathologies, offering the possibility of an ionizing radiation-free investigation. Because CEUS has been incorporated into everyday clinical practice, malignant diseases such as focal...

INTRODUCTION The most frequent causes of adult-onset recurrent infections are human immunodeficiency virus infection, malignancy, and autoimmune diseases, while acquired non-surgical hyposplenism is rare. Although acquired asplenia/hyposplenism have been described in association with celiac disease and, less frequently, with autoimmune diseases such as Sjögren's syndrome, the manifestations in ...