title: Post-traumatic intrahepatic splenosis mimicking a neuroendocrine tumour.
abstract: A 52-year-old man presented with abdominal pain with a background of splenectomy 25 years previously. Initial investigations lead to suspicion of a neuroendocrine tumour. Positron emission tomography octreotide scanning and chromogranin were raised. He subsequently underwent a lateral segmentectomy. The histopathology was consistent with splenosis. 1. Splenosis must be considered as differential in any patient with abdominal symptoms post-traumatic splenectomy. 2. Positron emission tomography (PET) octreotide scanning can detect splenosis giving false positives for a neuroendocrine tumour. This is the first case to describe such an association.
authors.affiliation: Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Dleong87@gmail.com
authors.forename: Chee Weng
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Leong
authors.forename: Tulsi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Menon
authors.forename: Sudhakar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rao
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018358:Neuroendocrine Tumors / Q000175:diagnosis; D013156:Splenectomy; D017890:Splenosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery