title: Heat-damaged RBC scan: a case of intrahepatic splenosis.
abstract: Intrahepatic splenosis results from autotransplantation of splenic tissue within the liver, usually after splenic trauma or splenectomy. We present a case of a 43-year-old male patient with an incidental liver lesion discovered on abdominal ultrasound. The diagnosis of intrahepatic splenosis was considered after CT and MRI before being definitively made with Tc-labeled heat-damaged RBC scintigraphy. The case report illustrates the imaging characteristics of this rare location of abdominal splenosis.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tamm
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Decker
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoskinson
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Abele
authors.forename: Vimal
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Patel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006358:Hot Temperature / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D017890:Splenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography