title: Intrahepatic accessory spleen: imaging features.
abstract: The authors present a case report of a 60-year-old man with a hepatic unknown mass. For diagnosis, they used ECO, CT (with and without contrast), MR (with and without contrast) and an ultrasound-assisted percutaneous lesion biopsy. Thus the mass-lesion in the liver appeared to be an intrahepatic accessory spleen in a patient afflicted with chronic hepatitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery "Pietro Valdoni" Policlinico "Umberto I" University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. lucianoizzo@uniroma.1.it
authors.forename: Luciano
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Izzo
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Caputo
authors.forename: Gaspare
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Galati
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography