Splenic lesions during benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis
Chelloul, N.; Brière, J.; Schaison, G.; Vorhauer, W.
La Semaine des Hopitaux Organe Fonde Par l'Association d'Enseignement Medical des Hopitaux de Paris 53(39): 2182-2188
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-1777 PMID: 204030 Document Number: 113840
The authors describe the fibro-granulomatous lesions with scar formation on a splenectomy specimen removed for familial spherocytosis, eight weeks after the onset of cat scratch disease. This original observation, apparently unique in the literature, is in favour of the blood spread of the agent responsible for benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis, and suggests a pathogenic theory for the unusual visceral manifestations.