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

Konstantinou Fotis; Liakopoulou Christina; Provatas Ioannis; Konstantinou Angelos; Loverdos Dionysios; Kokkinakis Evangelos

doi:10.1016/j.jceh.2018.08.004

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

J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2019 Mar-Apr;9(2):273-276. doi: 10.1016/j.jceh.2018.08.004. Epub 2018 Aug 27.

Authors

Konstantinou Fotis¹, Liakopoulou Christina¹, Provatas Ioannis¹, Konstantinou Angelos¹, Loverdos Dionysios¹, Kokkinakis Evangelos¹

Affiliation

¹ First Department of Internal Medicine, Evangelismos General Hospital, Ypsilantou 45-47, 10676, Athens, Greece.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: INCPH, Idiopathic Noncirrhotic Portal Hypertension; LCA, Littoral Cell Angioma; angioma; liver; portal hypertension; spleen.