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ArticleCase reports in oncology2014

Splenic inflammatory pseudotumor-like follicular dendritic cell tumor.

Konstantinos Vardas, Dimitrios Manganas, Georgios Papadimitriou, Vasileios Kalatzis, Georgios Kyriakopoulos, Maria Chantziara, Dimitrios Exarhos, Spiros Drakopoulos

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Article in Case reports in oncology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Konstantinos VardasFirst Department of Surgery and Transplant Unit, Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios ManganasFirst Department of Surgery and Transplant Unit, Athens, Greece.
Georgios PapadimitriouFirst Department of Surgery and Transplant Unit, Athens, Greece.
Vasileios KalatzisFirst Department of Surgery and Transplant Unit, Athens, Greece.
Georgios KyriakopoulosFirst Department of Surgery and Transplant Unit, Athens, Greece.
Maria ChantziaraDepartment of Pathology, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios ExarhosDepartment of Radiology, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Spiros DrakopoulosFirst Department of Surgery and Transplant Unit, Athens, Greece.
Evangelismos Hospital · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen with expression of follicular dendritic cell markers is an extremely rare lesion with only a few cases reported previously. The present study reports on an inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen 10 × 8 × 7 cm in size that was incidentally found in a 61-year-old man and increased gradually in size during a period of 3 months. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a well-circumscribed splenic mass, and abdominal computed tomography confirmed the presence of a well-circumscribed isodense lesion in the splenic hilum with inhomogenous enhancement in the early-phase images and no enhancement on delayed-phase contrast-enhanced images. Magnetic resonance imaging of the abdomen showed a well-defined isodense tumor on T1-weighted images with mildly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images, and this is only the second study that provides MRI findings of this entity. The patient underwent an uncomplicated open splenectomy for definitive histologic diagnosis. Under microscopic examination, the lesion was an admixture of lymphocytes, plasma cells and spindle cells. In situ hybridization analysis for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) revealed that most of the spindle cells were positive for EBV, and immunochemistry showed the expression of the follicular dendritic cell markers CD21, CD35 and CD23 within the tumor. The diagnosis of inflammatory pseudotumor-like follicular dendritic cell tumor was established.

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Follicular dendritic cellsFollicular dendritic cell tumorsInflammatory pseudotumor

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