title: Symptomatic splenic hamartoma with renal, cutaneous, and hematological abnormalities.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There is a rare association between splenic hamartomas and hematological abnormalities with, to our knowledge, only 24 reported cases in the English literature.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a case of a splenic hamartoma in a 14-year-old boy associated with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, multiple lobular capillary hemangiomas of the skin, hypertension, and anemia. Following imaging with ultrasonography, MRI, and nuclear scans, a hamartoma was suspected, but malignancy could not be excluded. The lesion was removed by partial splenectomy, and pathological examination confirmed the presence of a red pulp splenic hamartoma.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The renal, hematological, and dermatological abnormalities resolved following removal of the splenic hamartoma. This is the first reported case of a splenic hamartoma associated with renal, cutaneous, and hematological abnormalities and only the second reported case of a symptomatic splenic hamartoma treated by partial splenectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Imaging, The Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kassarjian
authors.forename: Y G
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Patenaude
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bernard
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery