title: Infarcted accessory spleen due to segmental portal hypertension.
abstract: Accessory spleens are frequent entities, but their infarction due to arterial stasis caused by segmental portal hypertension is extremely rare. We present this case of a 38-year-old female patient with a three-week history of abdominal pain and an abdominal CT scan revealing a 7 cm mass near the spleen and tail of pancreas with segmental portal hypertension. The patient had no hematologic disease. This mass was surgically resected, with a pathological diagnosis of an infarcted accessory spleen.
authors.affiliation: General Surgery Division, Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon.
authors.forename: Melhem C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Azzi
authors.forename: Elias F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: El-Khoury
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000150:complications*; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D013159:Splenic Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis