It can cause symptoms of anemia (lack of healthy red blood cells) and an enlarged spleen (an organ that filters and stores blood). This condition is usually inherited. It is caused by various genetic ...

This previously well teenager presented with a three week history of fever, headache, and a single episode of tonic-clonic seizure. On examination, he responded slowly to verbal commands and motor ...

Imaging revealed extensive peritoneal and pelvic metastases, splenic lesions, and parastomal hernia. Intraoperative findings confirmed widespread pseudomyxoma, involving the spleen and diaphragm. She ...

Abdominal ultrasound revealed a splenic cystic mass, which was subsequently confirmed by CT scan and MRI to be a 30 × 41 mm complex solid-cystic mass in the inferior pole of the spleen, showing ...

The spleen had several lacerations extending to the surface from focal hypodense cyst-like lesions of the splenic parenchyma (Fig 1). These lesions contained foci of contrast enhancement and did ...

In the case reported here, the lesions were small and the patient was free of symptoms of splenic metastases; the primary concern was to control disease progression in other sites. † Number of ...

Among these, splenic hematoma and nodular hyperplasia are the most common non-cancerous lesions found in the spleen and they account for 20 to 41 percent of all lesions found on the spleen. Removing ...