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| Hyposplenism, splenomegaly, abscess, infecions, cysts, and splenic candidiasi are what type of disorders? |
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| What part of the spleen thickens with age? |
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| What happens to the resistance of infection in hyposplenism? |
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| Clinical signs of splenomegaly. |
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| LUQ pain, spleen is easily palpitated, can extend into other directions from enlargement. |
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| What type of splenomegaly is hard to detect by ultrasound? |
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| Hemosiderin is another name for what? |
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| What is the most common diseas process seen in U/S of the spleen? |
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| How is splenomegaly determined by ultrasound? |
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| tip of the spleen covers lower pole of left kidney |
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| Chronically increased splenic pressure. |
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| Storage disease with deposits of amyloid proteins. |
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| Nodularity in walls of arteries and follicles NOT in the red pulp |
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| Fatal disease affecting female infants dealing with lipid and protein metabolism. |
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| Niemann-Pick storage disease |
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| Storage disease of all ages, problem with lipid metaboliism. |
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| bone pain, changes in skin pigment, splenomegaly, inhomogeneity, multiple nodules |
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| Abnormality of RBC gives rise to erythrocytes that are sphere shaped. |
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| An anemia resulting when destruction is greater than bone marrow can produce. |
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| Chronic life shortening but treatable disease that involves bone marrow. |
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| Deficient synthesis of normal hemoglobin, target shaped or abnormal erythrocytes with a short life span. |
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| Non-lipid reticuloendotheliosis, proliferation of RES cells, rapidly fatal disease affecting children under 2. |
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| Benign malformation of lymphatics composed of endothelium lined cystic spaces. |
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| Like Letterer-Siwe, but not fatal and affecting children over the age of 2 |
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| Hand-Schuller-Christian Disease |
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| What type of leukemia has more extreme splenomegaly? |
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| What type of leukemia has less severe splenomegaly? |
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| How common are splenic abscesses and what is the mortality rate? |
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| What is the most common cause of a splenic abscess? |
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| What is the most prominent feature in splenomegaly? |
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| What types of patients are most likely to have nodules in the spleen? |
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| Classic signs of splenic candidiasis. |
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| wheel within wheel pattern, bull's eye lesions |
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| What is the most common finding in AIDS patients? |
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| Caused be occlusion of a segment of splenic artery or branch. |
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| When there is splenic trauma, where sould you check for free fluid? |
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| Morrison's pouch, subdiaphragmatic areas, liver and spleen capsule, bladder and rectal areas |
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| What are the three types of splenic hematomas? |
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| intraparenchymal, subcapsular, intraperitoneal |
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| Are true cysts common in the spleen? |
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| What is another name for a splenic harmartoma? |
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| What is the most common benign splenic neoplasm? |
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| Rare malignancy, 70% present with anemia, and frequently metastasizes to the liver. |
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| The spleen is a primary site for what type of lymphoma? |
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| What are three types of granulomatous infections? |
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| histoplasmosis, tuberculosis, brucellosis |
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| What type of patients are predisposed for splenic artery aneurysm? |
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| females of childbearing age |
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| What is a common cause of splenic focal lesions? |
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