title: Clinical and roentgenographic findings in splenic abscess.
abstract: A splenic abscess developed in a 16-year-old boy following a supposed viral illness and left lower thoracic trauma. Preoperative diagnosis was at first obscured, but a spleen scan suggested fractured spleen and a splenic arteriogram showed a "subcapsular hematoma" and an aneurysm of the left hepatic artery. A 1,800-gm spleen containing one large abscess and one small one was removed. Splenic abscess is rare and, before modern methods of spleen scan and arteriography, rarely diagnosed.
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D000293:Adolescent; D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000150:complications; D006499:Hepatic Artery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery