Matsubayashi H, Mizoue T, Mizuguchi Y, Shinohara Y, Magami Y, Horibe T, Seki T, Saito T, Serizawa H
Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Japan.
J Clin Gastroenterol. 2000 Oct;31(3):258-61. doi: 10.1097/00004836-200010000-00018.
Both hemangioma and inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) of the spleen are rare benign mass lesions. Moreover, a splenic hemangioma accompanied by IPT is extremely rare. A 61-year-old woman who suffered from liver cirrhosis had a splenic cavernous hemangioma surrounded by granuloma. The literature on IPT of the spleen has described several possibilities of its causes; however, it is still unknown. This case was accompanied by portal hypertension due to liver cirrhosis, which may cause microrupture of hemangioma resulting in an IPT.
