title: Intrathoracic splenosis mimicking metastatic lung cancer.
abstract: A case of posttraumatic intrathoracic splenosis mimicking lung cancer is presented. The diagnosis was made by a radiocolloid liver-spleen study followed by a heat-damaged Tc-99m labeled red cell scan. A favorable change in the staging of the patient's real contralateral lung cancer resulted.
authors.affiliation: Nuclear Medicine Service, Brockton/West Roxbury V.A. Medical Center, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Kwan
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Drum
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Tow
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D017890:Splenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013896:Thoracic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon