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. 2009 Oct;39(10):1105-9.
doi: 10.1007/s00247-009-1339-x. Epub 2009 Jul 14.

Pediatric littoral cell angioma of the spleen: multimodality imaging including diffusion-weighted imaging

Gulhan Ertan  1 , Aylin Tekes, Sally Mitchell, Jeffrey Keefer, Thierry A G M Huisman
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Pediatric littoral cell angioma of the spleen: multimodality imaging including diffusion-weighted imaging

Gulhan Ertan et al. Pediatr Radiol. 2009 Oct.

Abstract

Littoral cell angioma (LCA) is a rare primary splenic vascular tumor originating from littoral cells lining the splenic red pulp sinuses. LCAs are rarely seen in children. We present the US, CT, and MRI findings including diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in a 2-year-old boy with histologically proven LCA. Previous studies on liver lesions have shown that DWI allows differentiation of vascular tumors from primary neoplasms and metastatic disease. The current case indicates that increased ADC values within the splenic lesions suggest a vascular etiology, which might help narrow the differential diagnosis.

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