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We present two children with massive bleeding into the serous body cavities accompanied by intractable consumption coagulopathy. One had a large spleen palpable at admission, the other developed progressive splenomegaly while in hospital. Neither child had any external evidence of angiomatous lesions. A splenic hemangioma was suspected clinically and on abdominal ultrasound; the diagnosis was confirmed at laparotomy. Splenectomy resulted in a prompt cure in both cases.
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Meera, A.V., Sen, S., Raghupathy, P. et al. Isolated splenic hemangioma presenting with bleeding into serous body cavities. Pediatr Surg Int 10, 389–390 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00182234
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