Early postsurgical lethal outcome due to splenic littoral cell angioma: A case report

Table 1 Information about dead patients

Ref.	Age (yr)	Gender (M/F)	Weight (g)	Length (cm)	Number (S/M)	Diameter (cm)	Splenomegaly (Yes/No)	Died after splenectomy	Cause of death	The details of the dead patient
Falk et al[2], 1991	42	F	145	NA	NA	NA	No	3 yr	Disseminated lymphoma	The patient suffered from malignant lymphoma, and died of disseminated lymphoma 3 yr after splenectomy
Falk et al[2], 1991	77	M	2404	NA	M	18	Yes	2 wk	NA	The patient’s splenic lesion were discovered incidentally during surgical repair of a dissecting aneurysm, and died 2 wk after splenectomy
Priego et al[26], 2008	83	F	NA	NA	M	NA	Yes	2 d	Great stress of operation	The patient suffered from myelodysplastic syndrome, and died 2 d after splenectomy because of the great stress of operation
Hansen et al[27], 2010	67	M	213	14	S	2.1	Yes	6 mo	Advanced liver failure, additional renal failure	The patient suffered from colon carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma and LCA, simultaneously. Hemicolectomy and splenectomy were performed first, and partial hepatectomy was performed 6 mo later. The patient died of advanced liver failure and additional renal failure a few weeks after surgery
Kranzfelder et al[13], 2012	62	M	110	NA	M	NA	No	8 mo	NA	Splenectomy was performed because of rupture of the spleen, and the pathology was LCA and PSAS. The patient died 8 mo after splenectomy
Peckova et al[3], 2016	62	F	310	19	M	1	Yes	6 yr	NA	The patient suffered from endometrioid endometrial adenocarcinoma and died of unknown cause 6 yr after splenectomy
Peckova et al[3], 2016	83	M	200	14	M	1.2	Yes	NA	Multiple myeloma	The patient was performed renal resection because of renal cell carcinoma in 2005, and splenectomy because of LCA in 2006, and was diagnosed as multiple myeloma in 2011, adenocarcinoma of ascending colon (the time was unclear). The patient died of multiple myeloma
No authors listed[28], 2017	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	Recurrence of malignant tumors	Two patients died of recurrence of malignant tumors (1 patient with gastric diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, 1 patient with ovarian serous cancer) after splenectomy
Takayoshi et al[11], 2018	61	F	NA	NA	S	NA	NA	10 yr	Hemorrhagic cerebral infarction	After 10 yr of splenectomy, the patient sufferred from metastatic LCA recurrence and multiple liver metastases, and died of hemorrhagic cerebral infarction
Our patient	33	F	NA	17	M	5.4	Yes	4 mo	MODS	The patient died of MODS after 4 mo after splenectomy without any obvious evidence of comorbidities

M/F: Male/female; S/M: Single/multiple; NA: Not available; LCA: Littoral cell angioma; PSAS: Primary splenic angiosarcoma; MODS: Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.