Accessory Splenic Artery: A Rare Cause of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.
Variations in the origin and branching pattern of splenic artery are relatively common and asymptomatic, but the presence of an accessory splenic artery, that too symptomatic, is quite rare. This report describes a 67-year-old male, with no history of liver disease, who presented with recurrent upper gastrointestinal bleeding and was found to have an accessory splenic artery arising from the left gastric artery with submucosal intragastric course and supplying the upper pole of the spleen.
Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA. Shrey000@gmail.com.
Shreyas R
SR
Patel
Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
Stephen
S
Lowe
D000368:Aged; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D000072226:Computed Tomography Angiography; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005748:Gastric Fundus / Q000098:blood supply; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D013154:Spleen / Q000098:blood supply; D013157:Splenic Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
Accessory splenic artery; Embolization; GI bleeding