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Thoracic splenosis: a treatment approach
Author(s) -
Itinteang Tinte,
McGiven James R,
Koleda Catherine B,
McCrystal Graham D
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00295.x
Subject(s) - cardiothoracic surgery , medicine , general surgery , library science , surgery , computer science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 17 April 2006 184 8 416-416 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2006 www.mja.com.au SnapShot During surgery, the mass was noted to be closely app phrenic nerve and apparently deriving blood sup phrenic pedicle. A smaller mass was discovered pos cent to the descending aorta. Histological examination of the mass revealed lymphoid tissue, with lymphoid foci surrounding linised vessels. The lymphoid foci were separated 41 lun ch A -year-old man was referred for open biopsy of a 3 cm left g lesion. The lesion had been discovered incidentally on est x-ray (Box, A) and investigated with a computed tomography scan of the chest (Box, B) and a fine needle aspiration biopsy under radiological guidance that was inconclusive. The patient had a history of smoking and had also sustained a ruptured left diaphragm and a pulped spleen (with subsequent splenectomy) in a motor vehicle accident 13 years previously. A left thoracotomy was performed and the mass removed. lied to the left ply from the teriorly, adja-