*SPLEEN IMAGING INTERPRETATION* 1. SPLENOMEGALY -AMYLOIDOSIS -ANEMIA (E.G., SICKLE CELL, THALASSEMIA, HEMOLYTIC) -CIRRHOSIS -CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE -EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS -HEMATOMA -LEUKEMIA -LYMPHOMA -MYELOFIBROSIS 2. MILD SPLENOMEGALY -ACUTE INFECTION -CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE -LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSIS -METASTATIC DISEASE -OTHER CAUSES OF SPLENOMEGALY -POLYARTERITIS NODOSA -RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS -SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS -THROMBOCYTOPENIA PURPURA 3. MODERATE SPLENOMEGALY -CIRRHOSIS -HEMOLYTIC ANEMIAS -HEPATITIS-ACUTE AND CHRONIC -HODGKIN'S DISEASE -INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS -OTHER CAUSES OF SPLENOMEGALY -OTHER LYMPHOMAS -POLYCYTHEMIA VERA -SICKLE CELL ANEMIA (EARLY) 4. MASSIVE SPLENOMEGALY -CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA -MYELOID METAPLASIA 5. DECREASED SPLEEN SIZE -CELIAC DISEASE -DERMATITIS HERPATIFORMIS -FANCONI'S ANEMIA -SICKLE CELL DISEASE -THYROTOXICOSIS -ULCERATIVE COLITIS 6. ABSENCE OF SPLENIC VISUALIZATION -FOLLOWING SPLENECTOMY 7. FUNCTIONAL ASPLENIA -SICKLE CELL ANEMIA 8.COLD DEFECT IN THE SPLEEN -HEMATOMA -HEPATIC WALK (LEFT LOBE OF LIVER CREATING PSEUDODEFECT) -INFARCT -LYMPHOMA -PROMINENT HILUM 9.INCREASED SPLENIC UPTAKE (SHUNTING) -DIFFUSE HEPATIC INVOLVEMENT CIRRHOSIS FATTY INFILTRATION HEPATITIS WIDESPREAD HEPATIC METASTASES -SYSTEMIC TUMOR CARCINOMA WITHOUT HEPATIC INVOLVEMENT RECURRENT MELANOMA -RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM OVERSTIMULATION CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE SEPTICEMIA -CIRCULATORY CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE -HEMATOPOIETIC ANEMIA-ESPECIALLY IRON DEFICIENCY FELTY'S SYNDROME MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS -ENDOCRINE DIABETES -TECHNICAL PATIENT POSITION 10.DECREASED SPLENIC UPTAKE -HODGKIN'S DISEASE -OTHER LYMPHOMAS 11.SPLENIC HOT SPOT -HEMANGIOMA -REDUNDANT TISSUE 12.DISPLACED SPLEEN -DILATATION OF STOMACH OR COLON -POSITIONAL CHANGES -WANDERING SPLEEN *LIVER & SPLEEN CLINICAL APPLICATIONS* * LIVER-USEFUL TIPS * *LIVER IMAGING INTERPRETATION* *HEPATOBILIARY IMAGING INTERPRETATION* * LIVER & SPLEEN * |