Coincidence of Intra-Abdominal Splenosis in a Patient with Advanced Ovarian Cancer: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Coincidence of Intra-Abdominal Splenosis in a Patient with Advanced Ovarian Cancer: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Splenosis is a rare disease, which is often discovered incidentally years after surgical procedures on the spleen or traumatic splenic lesions. Through injury of the splenic capsule, splenic cells are able to spread and autoimplant in a fashion similar to the process of metastatic cancer. Here we pr...

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Main Authors: Tatjana Braun, Amelie De Gregorio, Lisa Baumann, Jochen Steinacker, Wolfgang Janni, Nikolaus De Gregorio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021-04-01
Series:The Surgery Journal
Subjects:
diagnostic imaging
gynecologic oncology
gynecologic operation
ovarian neoplasms
splenosis
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0041-1731426

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