Accessory Splenic Tissue Producing Indentation of the Gastric Fundus Resembling Gastric Neoplasm

Abstract

THE stomach being a hollow organ centrally placed in the upper abdomen, it is quite conceivable that it can have indentations from an enlarged spleen at the fundus. Roentgenologists have observed this fact, and usually it is not too difficult to separate a true intrinsic deformity of the stomach from extrinsic pressure or indentation. Occasionally, a normal spleen produces a smooth indentation of the lateral margin of the stomach in the region of the cardia.1 There is a theoretical possibility that splenosis or accessory splenic tissue can also produce such an indentation. The presence of accessory splenic tissue in the . . .