Splenic injury commonly occurs following abdominal trauma and can result in severe complications and death if it goes unrecognized. The Seurat spleen is a term used to describe the angiographic appearance of splenic injury following blunt trauma, given its resemblance to the pointillistic artwork of French neo-impressionist Georges Seurat. We present a case of a 43-year-old man who presented following a motor vehicle collision and was found to have multiple punctate foci of contrast extravasation in the spleen consistent with the Seurat spleen angiographic sign. This angiographic pattern can be used as a pathognomonic sign to identify splenic injury, with early identification crucial to preventing further complications of the injury.

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