Littoral cell angioma of the spleen: appearance on sonography and CT.

Littoral cell angioma (LCA) is a rare benign vascular tumor of the spleen with characteristic histomorphologic features. Only a few descriptions of the radiologic appearance of this tumor have been published, and those descriptions are variable. We report a case of LCA in a 37-year-old man with psoriasis and nonspecific symptoms of weakness, pain and fatigue, normocytic anemia, and thrombocytopenia. The results of abdominal sonography and contrast-enhanced CT correlated: the 2 modalities revealed hepatosplenomegaly and multiple round splenic lesions of similar appearance and size (on sonograms, ill-defined echogenic lesions up to 3.2 cm without acoustic enhancement; on CT scans, hypodense, nonenhancing lesions up to 3.5 cm). Because making a differential diagnosis was difficult and our presumptive diagnosis was hemangioma or lymphoma, splenectomy was performed. Postoperative pathologic examinations confirmed a final diagnosis of LCA. The patient's recovery was uneventful. LCA should be considered when making a differential diagnosis of splenic lesions, and sonography may be more helpful than CT in reaching a diagnosis of LCA.

Goldfeld M ，Cohen I ，Loberant N ，Mugrabi A ，Katz I ，Papura S ，Noi I ... -  《JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ULTRASOUND》

Multiple littoral cell angioma of the spleen: a case report and review of the literature.

Qu ZB ，Liu LX ，Wu LF ，Zhao S ，Jiang HC ... -  《ONKOLOGIE》

Littoral cell angioma of the spleen.

Grantham M ，Einstein D ，McCarron K ，Lichtin A ，Vogt D ... -  《abdominal imaging》

Littoral cell angioma presenting as metastatic thyroid carcinoma to the spleen.

Mohan V ，Jones RC ，Drake AJ 3rd ，Daly PL ，Shakir KM ... -  《-》

Huge Littoral Cell Angioma of the Spleen: A Case Report.

Lyu S ，He Q 《-》