[Four original cases of splenic venous infarction during pancreatic disease (author's transl)].

The authors report 4 cases of splenic complications occurring during chronic pancreatic disease and emphasize the vascular origin of the lesions observed in the spleen whether rupture, pseudo-cysts, hematic cysts, infarction or necrosis. The symptoms in each case seemed identical in their pathogenesis and linked to trunkular or radicular splenic venous thrombosis.