Терапевтический архив (Jul 2012)

The silicone spleen (description of a clinical case)

  • A A Vasil'konova,
  • A U Magomedova,
  • L S Al'-Radi,
  • E A Semenova,
  • O A Gavrilina,
  • M M Karpukhin,
  • S K Kravchenko

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 84, no. 7
pp. 72 – 74

Abstract

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The paper describes a rare case of verified foreign body (silicone) migration into the spleen. The specific feature of this clinical case is a rare clinical finding through histological study and the use of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry for the determination of silicone in splenic tissues.

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