Spleen (benign)

Spleen (benign)'s disease overview

Spleen cyst is a less common lesions of spleen. This is a spleen tumor, about 0.5 to 2% of the population. The disease usually happens silently or with nonspecific symptoms.

Is the spleen dangerous ? The disease can be life -threatening if the follicle is infected or bleeding in the cyst, the cyst or leak into the surrounding organ.

Causes of Spleen (benign)'s disease

Spleen cysts have two main types: parasitic cysts and non -parasitic cysts.

Parasitic spleen cysts: Due to the development of ecinococcus (small tapeworm). The main host is home animals (dogs, cats ...). Intermediate owner of the disease is rodents (sheep, goat). Echinococcus's eggs are infected with raw food (plants, raw vegetables ...) in the blood vessel system to organs such as the liver, lungs, kidneys, brain, spleen, etc. The results of the arrest of larvae in the spleen lead to the formation of parasite cysts (also known as hydrangide follicles).

Non -parasitic cysts: The cysts of congenital origin, white vessels or blood vessels are unknown.

fake spleen cysts: are the follicles formed after the destruction of hematoma due to trauma, infarction, hemorrhage ...

Symptoms of Spleen (benign)'s disease

Spleen cyst diseases are divided into 3 main manifestations:

Silent spleen cysts: The patient was discovered accidentally when examining other diseases

Spleen cysts with symptoms: caused by the compression of occupation of the place of occupation Spleen cyst with healing tissue and with neighboring organs (stomach, colon, lung bottom, diaphragm dome ...) Peritoneal, blood infection, follicles causing peritonitis, bleeding follicles caused by trauma ...

Abdominal pain: may have pain in the left side of the left ribs, epigastric areas, if the peritonitis of the patient has severe abdominal pain. Stomach

digestive disorders: anorexia, flatulence, heartburn, loose stool or constipation

Difficulty breathing: When the cyst compresses the diaphragm and the left pleura

Cough: If the follicle is pinched and stimulates diaphragm nerves, pleura

back pain: If the cyst compression kidney and ureter. > Fever: If the follicle is infected or the spleen follicle abscess

Hypertension: When the cyst compression of the kidney artery

People at risk for Spleen (benign)'s disease

People with a family history of spleen. There is a habit of eating raw vegetables, fish salad .. there is a risk of cysts due to parasites

Prevention of Spleen (benign)'s disease

There is no specific measures to prevent spleen tumors. Some can be applied including:

healthy, hygienic eating

exercise regularly

go to regular health check -ups, especially if there are those Symptoms of digestive disorders are just vague. The risk of spleen rupture causes blood loss, infection, leak into the neighboring organ.

Diagnostic measures for Spleen (benign)'s disease

Diagnosis of spleen tumor based on clinical symptoms and the following subclinical symptoms:

ultrasound: Simple, cheap, non -infringing diagnostic means. The spleen cysts are manifested as poor or non -negative sounds with clear shore, thin, soft walls and increased rear sound. Ultrasound helps determine the number, size, location of the follicles as well as other abdominal lesions if any. of the capsule if any. Assess the pinch's compression to the neighboring agencies. Straight chest x -ray: Can see the image of the spleen enlarged to push the diaphragm, pushing the stomach vapor.

Spleen (benign)'s disease treatments

Treatment of non -surgical spleen cysts:

Applying cases of spleen tumor is smaller than 4 cm, lone, no symptoms and complications. Avoid abdominal trauma and periodic examination from 6-12 months/time

Patient with cysts caused by parasites using parasites such as Albendazole, Mebendazole ...

Treatment of surgical spleen cysts:

Surgery is a gold standard in the treatment of spleen cysts. , semi -partial cutting and cutting cyst. .

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