[Splenosis after splenic rupture: a disease to be recognized]

Abstract

One case of peritoneal splenosis is reported. The diagnosis was established at surgery in a 17-year-old female patient presenting with dull abdominopelvic pain, who had undergone total splenectomy after a trauma ten years earlier. This autograft of splenic tissue must be known to be acknowledged, especially today, when the conservative treatment advocated for ruptures of the spleen may increase its incidence. The literature reports only about one hundred cases. The treatment only consists in removing the sole symptomatic nodules.