Fig. 8.

Splenic brucellosis: 17-year-old male patient with a history of unpasteurized dairy product consumption presented to ER with malaise, prolonged recurrent fever, and dull abdominal pain. Laboratory workup showed anemia and leukopenia with an increase in acute phase reactants. Axial plane postcontrast abdominal CT showed multiple subcentimeter hypodense nodules (arrowheads) in the spleen. With these clinical, radiological, and laboratory findings, brucellosis was considered as putative diagnosis. Subsequently, blood culture grew Brucella spp., and the patient was treated accordingly