These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Detection of multiple accessory spleens in a patient with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura.
    Author: Phom H, Dasan J B, Kashyap R, Malhotra A, Choudhry VP, Bal CS.
    Journal: Clin Nucl Med; 2001 Jul; 26(7):593-5. PubMed ID: 11416736.
    Abstract:
    Chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura is an immunologically mediated disorder resulting in disordered platelet kinetics and potentially life-threatening thrombocytopenia. Failure of medical therapy is an indication for splenectomy, and responses are seen in 70% of patients after this procedure. An important cause of relapse after splenectomy is the presence of accessory spleens. The authors describe a patient with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura who had a relapse of symptoms 4.5 years after splenectomy. Tc-99m heat-denatured RBC planar and SPECT studies revealed the presence of multiple (more than 13) accessory spleens, but few of them were localized anatomically using computed tomography.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]