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SUBMITTER: Kefeli U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7607283 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kefeli Umut U Mehtap Ozgur O Cakir Ozgur O Eruyar Ahmet Tugrul AT İsgoren Serkan S Ucuncu Kefeli Aysegul A
The Journal of international medical research 20191205 3
Splenosis refers to the seeding of splenic cells associated with surgery or trauma. Splenosis mimicking other diseases has been reported in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of follicular lymphoma in a patient with splenosis whose diagnosis of lymphoma was delayed because of a known history of splenosis. We report a 48-year-old male patient who underwent splenectomy because of injury from a high fall 20 years previously. He had no symptoms other than mild abdom ...[more]