Splenomegaly with Hypersplenism Due to Sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis

“…Among the symptoms attributed to sarcoidosis of the spleen are local pain, discomfort, anorexia and vomiting (Culligan and Snoddy, 1945;Hickling, 1938, Case 2;Kay, 1950, Cases 1, 2 and 3; Partenheimer and Meredith, 1950); and general ill-health and weakness (Culligan and Snoddy, 1945;Hickling, 1938, Cases 1 and 2; Kay, 1950, Case 1). Young and Mouney (1968) reported the ease of a man aged 41 with a short history of tiredness and left abdominal pain relieved by lying on the right side, who was found to have gross spleneetomy and generalized enlargement of superfieiallymph-nodes; the spleen, weighing 1933 g, was removed, and both it and an axillary lymph-node eontained sareoid-type granulomas; relief of symptoms followed, and the lyrnph-node enlargement slowly subsided.…”