Spontaneous splenic rupture as a leading symptom of primary amyloidosis
Pöthig, D.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 35(23): 847-851
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542 PMID: 7467615 Document Number: 166328
On occasion of a laparotomy on account of an unclear acute abdomen in a 30-year-old patient the surprising diagnosis of a spontaneous rupture of the spleen in amyloidosis was made. The patient died already 3 months after the appearance of the first uncharacteristic symptoms acutely from heart failure due to amyloidosis of the myocardium of pericollagenic type of high degree.