Splenic infarct associated with diaphragmatic eventration: case report illustrating the non-specificity of splenic focal defects.
The authors report a scintigraph of a 76-year-old man interpreted as being of a partially herniated spleen constricted by the diaphragm. The constriction proved illusory.
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003965:Diaphragmatic Eventration / Q000150:complications*; D006547:Hernia / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013159:Splenic Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013160:Splenic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D013667:Technetium
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