Percutaneous Nonvascular Splenic Intervention: A 10-Year Review
Brian C. Lucey1,
Giles W. Boland,
Michael M. Maher,
Peter F. Hahn,
Debra A. Gervais and
Peter R. Mueller
1 All authors: Department of Radiology, Division of Abdominal Imaging and
Intervention, Massachusetts General Hospital, White 270, 55 Fruit St., Boston,
MA 02114.

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Fig. 1. Contrast-enhanced CT scan of 42-year-old man with history of
lymphoma shows multiple discrete low-attenuation lesions throughout spleen.
Fine-needle aspiration biopsy proved one lesion to be lymphoma.
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Fig. 2A. 63-year-old man with history of carcinoid tumor.
Contrast-enhanced CT scan shows ring-enhancing splenic lesion. This lesion was
one of several splenic lesions in this patient.
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Fig. 2B. 63-year-old man with history of carcinoid tumor. Unenhanced
CT scan obtained at biopsy shows lesion, which proved to be metastatic
carcinoid.
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Fig. 3A. 42-year-old woman with history of melanoma. Sonogram shows
hyperechoic splenic lesion outlined by cursors.
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Fig. 3B. 42-year-old woman with history of melanoma. Sonogram obtained
during sonographically guided splenic biopsy shows needle in mass. This mass
proved to be metastatic melanoma.
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Fig. 4A. 48-year-old man who presented with incidental splenic lesion.
Diagnostic contrast-enhanced CT scan shows splenic lesion.
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Fig. 4B. 48-year-old man who presented with incidental splenic lesion.
CT scan shows 22-gauge needle within lesion, which proved to be littoral cell
angioma.
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Fig. 5A. 68-year-old woman with history of lymphoma. Diagnostic CT
scan shows splenic lesion. No lymphadenopathy was visible.
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Fig. 5B. 68-year-old woman with history of lymphoma. CT scan shows
biopsy needle within lesion, which proved to be splenic infarct.
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Fig. 6A. 61-year-old man who presented with fever and left upper
quadrant pain. Diagnostic CT scan shows low-attenuation lesion within
spleen.
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Fig. 6B. 61-year-old man who presented with fever and left upper
quadrant pain. CT scan obtained during guided biopsy shows needle and lesion.
Pus was aspirated.
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Fig. 6C. 61-year-old man who presented with fever and left upper
quadrant pain. CT scan shows pigtail catheter coiled within abscess. Note
small perisplenic fluid collection (arrows) after procedure.
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Fig. 7. 68-year-old woman with isolated hypodense splenic lesion. CT
scan obtained several hours after splenic biopsy shows large splenic
hemorrhage. Biopsied lesion was angiosarcoma, and patient required
splenectomy.
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