A Case of Non-traumatic Rupture of a Splenic Hemangioma

Abstract

A 45-year-old woman came to our hospital with a chief complaint of pain in the left upper abdomen. Blood tests at that time showed anemia. Abdominal ultrasound and abdominal contrast-enhanced CT examinations revealed a nearly-circular, internally non-uniform tumor in the spleen with an adjacent hematoma. The patient was diagnosed with splenic tumor rupture, and an emergency splenectomy was performed. The tumor was histopathologically diagnosed as hemangioma. The patient recovered well postoperatively and was discharged on the eighth day. A case of non-traumatic rupture of a splenic hemangioma treated with splenectomy was described, and the findings are reported along with a review of the literature.