Thoracic splenosis diagnosed 48 years after thoracoabdominal trauma

Yeliz Erol; Kutsal Turhan; Ayşe Gül Ergönül; Alpaslan Çakan; Ufuk Çağırıcı; Ali Veral

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2016.12160

Yeliz Erol¹, Kutsal Turhan¹, Ayşe Gül Ergönül¹, Alpaslan Çakan¹, Ufuk Çağırıcı¹, Ali Veral²

¹Departments of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty of Ege University, İzmir, Turkey
²Departments of Pathology, Medical Faculty of Ege University, İzmir, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2016.12160

Thoracic splenosis is a rare condition including autotransplantation of splenic tissue into the left hemithorax and resulting from simultaneous rupture of the spleen and left hemidiaphragm. In this article, we report a 61-yearold female patient examined due to back pain and who was found to have left pleural nodules in her chest X-ray and computed tomography which were considered to be malignant. Patient had a history of traumatic spleen and left diaphragm rupture. Video assisted thoracoscopic biopsy of the nodules was performed and histological examination confirmed the nodules as splenic tissue. Thoracic splenosis is a pathology which should be kept in mind in patients having a left solitary pleural nodule or multiple pleural nodules and a history of spleen and left diaphragm rupture.

Keywords : Splenosis; thoracic; trauma

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