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Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine 3/2008

01-09-2008 | CE - Letter to the Editor

When a car accident can change the life: splenic lymphoma and not post-traumatic hematoma

Authors: Raffaella Salmi, Piergiorgio Gaudenzi, Filippo Di Todaro, Pierluigi Morandi, Ingrid Nielsen, Roberto Manfredini

Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine | Issue 3/2008

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In the last years, technological advance of high-resolution radiological imaging has contributed to the development of the situation during which clinically inapparent masses are discovered during studies performed for other reasons. Such findings, usually defined as incidentalomas, are relatively frequent for endocrine, but hormonally inactive, masses. However, the term incidentaloma, originally limited to endocrine masses, has been further more widely used for any casual mass, discovered by procedures performed for other reasons. …
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Metadata
Title
When a car accident can change the life: splenic lymphoma and not post-traumatic hematoma
Authors
Raffaella Salmi
Piergiorgio Gaudenzi
Filippo Di Todaro
Pierluigi Morandi
Ingrid Nielsen
Roberto Manfredini
Publication date
01-09-2008
Publisher
Springer Milan
Published in
Internal and Emergency Medicine / Issue 3/2008
Print ISSN: 1828-0447
Electronic ISSN: 1970-9366
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-008-0123-5

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