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ArticleBMJ case reports2020

Metastatic malignancy mimics: a rare case of traumatic splenosis mimicking intra-abdominal malignancy.

Vinoth Nadesalingam, Laura May Davis, Gill Vivian, Benjamin Corcoran

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Vinoth NadesalingamGastroenterology, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basildon, UK v.nadesalingam@nhs.net.
Laura May DavisDepartment of Insititute of Nucelar Medicine, University College London, London, UK.
Gill VivianNuclear Medicine, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Benjamin CorcoranNuclear Medicine, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · GBBasildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a case of a patient, undergoing imaging for an unrelated presentation, whose adolescent abdominal trauma had caused an unrecognised disseminated intra-abdominal splenosis, resulting in an imaging presentation on CT that suggested intra-abdominal malignancy. The lack of correlative symptoms of disseminated malignancy, in addition to imaging findings suggesting previous upper abdominal trauma, led to a suggestion that the intra-abdominal lesion might represent spleen tissue. A denatured red cell scan with radio-labelled technetium-99m, allowed this tissue to be confirmed as splenic in nature, and an invasive, and potentially risky biopsy was averted.

Indexed as

Abdominal InjuriesAbdominal NeoplasmsDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm MetastasisSplenosisTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photonhaematology (incl blood transfusion)radiology

Identifiers

PMID32066576
PMCPMC7046376
OpenAlexW3005708327

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