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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998;13:104-106
© 1998 Elsevier Science NL

Case report

Thoracic splenosis; from a thoracoscopic viewpoint

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa 920, Japan

Received 2 June 1997; accepted 5 November 1997.

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Thoraic splenosis is a rare entity after splenic and diaphragmatic injury. We report on a patient who had left pulmonary masses on a routine chest roentgenogram. It was impossible to rule out the possibility of other tumors or malignancies from past history, radiographic findings and needle biopsy. The patient underwent a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The resected tumor was diagnosed as the splenic tissue. This represents the first reported case, that diagnosed by video-assisted thoracoscopic resection, of thoracic splenosis. The course of dissemination of the splenic tissue to chest is considered to be the costophregmatic recessus by the intrathoracic findings thoracoscopically.

Key Words: Thoracic splenosis • Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

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