SPLENIC METASTASIS OF A FALLOPIAN-TUBE ADENOCARCINOMA

Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic characteristics of a case of a fa llopian tube adenocarcinoma splenic metastasis are reported. This case illustrates the diagnostic difficulties of this situation. These diff iculties are both related to the poorly specific symptomatology and th e low specificity of the current imagery. Percutaneous biopsy-aspirati on guided by ultrasonography or CT-scan could be helpful. The treatmen t is surgery, eventually combined with adjuvant radiotherapy: it can a llow a long survival time. Splenic metastasis should be systematically checked up in every tumoral context.