SPONTANEOUS SPLENIC RUPTURE DUE TO ISOLATED SPLENIC PELIOSIS

Authors
CELEBREZZE JP COTTRELL DJ WILLIAMS GB
Citation
Jp. Celebrezze et al., SPONTANEOUS SPLENIC RUPTURE DUE TO ISOLATED SPLENIC PELIOSIS, Southern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.), 91(8), 1998, pp. 763-764
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Southern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.) → ACNP
ISSN journal
00384348
Volume
91
Issue
8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
763 - 764
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-4348(1998)91:8<763:SSRDTI>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
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.