Jp. Celebrezze et al., SPONTANEOUS SPLENIC RUPTURE DUE TO ISOLATED SPLENIC PELIOSIS, Southern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.), 91(8), 1998, pp. 763-764
Peliosis is a rare condition in which blood-filled cysts occupy the pa
renchyma of solid organs. It most commonly involves the Liver or liver
and spleen, but isolated cases of splenic peliosis have been document
ed. Spontaneous splenic hemorrhage from splenic peliosis has been repo
rted in the literature only 6 times, We present the seventh known case
of spontaneous hemorrhage from a peliotic spleen in an otherwise heal
thy man.