Published in:
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
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Issue 3/2008
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Excerpt
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. …