Case report: Portal hypertension causing massive enlargement of an accessory spleen - A rare cause of splenic pseudotumour

Brain and Language

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 882-884

  Holloway, B J ^a,b   Pei, L ^a   Pfister, R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHORISTOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; SPLEEN TUMOR; SPLENOMEGALY; ACCESSORY SPLEEN; ADULT; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; SHORT SURVEY;

CHORISTOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MIDDLE AGED; SPLEEN; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; SPLENOMEGALY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 23744504216     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0009-9260(97)80091-8     Document Type: Article

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