Quiste no parasitario de bazo: resolución laparoscópica

Abstract

Splenic cysts are a rare pathology. According to their classification, splenic cysts can be parasitical and non-parasitical. Non-parasitic cysts are divided into true or primary and false or pseudo cysts. The symptomatology occurs if the cyst is big in size or has some kind of complication. There has not been any case with laparoscopic resolution published in Ecuador referred to splenic cysts. This is a case study of a 21 year-old single woman, with a body weight of 45Kg , she has had it since nearly a year ago, a painless abdominal mass in the upper left abdomen; without clinical manifestations. Imaging tests are taken and they corroborate the diagnosis of splenic cyst of lower pole. Multilocular splenic cysts are found and the surgical procedure is unroofing; the anatomopathological report is simple cyst. The evolution is favorable and complications are not present.