The Sequence of the Evil: A Case Report of Idiopathic Noncirrhotic Portal Hypertension Associated With Littoral Cell Angioma of the Spleen, 4 Years After the Successful Treatment of a Colon Cancer

Idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension is a rare clinical entity. Even rarer is the littoral cell angioma of the spleen. The almost simultaneous appearance of the two disorders in a 64-year-old Greek woman was a tempting stimulus for us to attempt to identify a common denominator between these...

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Published in:	Journal of clinical and experimental hepatology Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 273 - 276
Main Authors:	Fotis, Konstantinou, Christina, Liakopoulou, Ioannis, Provatas, Angelos, Konstantinou, Dionysios, Loverdos, Evangelos, Kokkinakis
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	India Elsevier B.V 01-03-2019 Elsevier
Subjects:	angioma Case Report liver portal hypertension spleen angioma portal hypertension LCA liver spleen INCPH LCA, Littoral Cell Angioma INCPH, Idiopathic Noncirrhotic Portal Hypertension
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Summary:	Idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension is a rare clinical entity. Even rarer is the littoral cell angioma of the spleen. The almost simultaneous appearance of the two disorders in a 64-year-old Greek woman was a tempting stimulus for us to attempt to identify a common denominator between these two, apparently distinct, entities.
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ISSN:	0973-6883 2213-3453
DOI:	10.1016/j.jceh.2018.08.004