Splenic duplication: a rare cause of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Duplication of the spleen accompanied by multiple anomalies of the thorax and abdomen: a rare case

“…In our case, there is also a short pancreas which has also been reported in other polysplenia syndromes [5,12,15]. Later in 2013, Sharma et al [13] reported a 43-year-old male patient presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. In this case, the reason of bleeding was the varicose veins due to the abnormal venous drainage of the upper part of the spleen to the gastric fundus veins.…”