Successful CT Guided Needle Aspiration of Splenic Abscess: A Case Report.
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2013-07
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Splenic abcess is a rare clinical entity with an incidence of 0.2 to 0.7 % in autopsy based studies. Untreated,
a splenic abscess is associated with nearly 100% mortality. An 44 year old male was admitted with fever
and fatigue for three weeks and abdominal pain for two weeks was found to have large splenic abscesses
on imaging studies. Extensive workup revealed no evidence of hematogenous spread from an endovascular
source, no septic emboli in other organs and no proof of local spread from an infectious origin within the
abdomen.Our case introduces an unusal presentation of splenic abscess without well described pathophysiologic
mechanism to support their etiology.
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Splenic Abcess, Non immune compromised, Splenectomy
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Kapoor Sidharth, Kudyar R P, Kudyar Surbhi. Successful CT Guided Needle Aspiration of Splenic Abscess: A Case Report. JK Science Journal of Medical Education and Research. 2013 Jul-Sept; 15(3): 153-155.