title: [Symptomatic heterotopic splenic tissue in the adrenal gland area].
abstract: We report on a 33-year-old man with symptomatic heterotopic suprarenal splenic tissue. Heterotopic splenic tissue can often be found after posttraumatic splenectomy. It is a result of autotransplantation induced by trauma (splenosis). Additionally it can grow during embryogenic development. Such an accessory spleen is found in 10-44% of all autopsies. In this case report the patient was treated by resection due to increasing flank pain and suspected neoplasm.
authors.affiliation: Radiologische Klinik, Universität Bonn.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heider
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Winter
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kreft
mesh_terms: D000307:Adrenal Gland Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D002828:Choristoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation; D013154:Spleen; D013156:Splenectomy; D017890:Splenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Symptomatisches heterotopes Milzgewebe in der Nebennierenloge.