Spleen

Question 1

What is the size of the average adult spleen?

Answer 1

12 x 4 x 8 cm

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Question 2

What is an accessory spleen?

Answer 2

normal variant, appearing as small rounded masses located near the splenic hilum
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Question 3

What is a splenic granuloma?

Answer 3

focal calcifications due to a previous infection

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Question 4

What is a type of cyst seen in the spleen?

Answer 4

epidermoid cyst

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Question 5

What is a benign splenic tumor?

Answer 5

hemangioma, most common benign neoplasm of spleen

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Question 6

What is the typical appearance of metastatic lesions to the spleen?

Answer 6

hypoechoic, but can vary

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Question 7

What is a splenic infarct and how does it appear on ultrasound?

Answer 7

death of splenic tissue; initially it appears as a hypoechoic wedge of tissue, it can become anechoic with calcifications
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Question 8

How does a splenic abcess appear?

Answer 8

complex cystic lesions with reverberation artifact

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Question 9

How does the spleen appear in sickle cell disease?

Answer 9

begins to enlarge and then leads to infarction leaving less and less spleen as the patient gets older
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