title: Torsion of accessory spleen in an adult patient: imaging findings at CT, MRI and angiography.
abstract: A 40-year-old woman presented with acute left upper quadrant pain due to torsion of an accessory spleen around its long vascular pedicle, causing infarction. Torsion of an accessory spleen is extremely rare. As far as we known only 14 cases have previously been reported in the literature, and more than half patients were children. MRI can be helpful in the differential diagnosis of infarction by suggesting haemorrhagic necrosis on the T2-weighted images.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jans
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vanslembrouck
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Van Hoe
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sockx
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Demedts
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Baert
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis; D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006499:Hepatic Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008638:Mesenteric Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D013157:Splenic Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013159:Splenic Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014102:Torsion Abnormality / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis