Littoral cell angioma: a vascular tumor mimicking a solid tumor on a Tc-99m-red blood cell spleen scan.
A splenic space occupying lesion, in a 45-year-old woman, was negative in a Tc-99m-RBC spleen scan. A diagnostic splenectomy was performed and the lesion was found to be a vascular tumor, lately identified as littoral cell angioma. The histological and immunohistochemical findings are discussed in correlation with the imaging results.
Barshack
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Department of Pathology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
Perelman
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Many
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Goshen
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Zwas
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Kopolovic
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D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004912:Erythrocytes; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008875:Middle Aged; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D010833:Phytic Acid; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013156:Splenectomy; D013160:Splenic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; C026177:technetium phytate; D010833:Phytic Acid