Abdominal splenosis.
Abdominal splenosis was an incidental finding at laparotomy for acute appendicitis in a 39-year-old man who had had splenectomy for traumatic rupture of the spleen nine years previously. Similar cases of abdominal and intrathoracic splenosis are reviewed.
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D008297:Male; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D010537:Peritoneum / Q000473:pathology*; D013161:Splenic Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*