SPLEEN

Question 1

THE SPLEEN REMOVES DAMAGED _____ _____ FROM CIRCULATION

Answer 1

BLOOD CELLS

Question 2

SPLENOMEGALY IS INDICATED WITH A LONGITUDINAL MEASUREMENT >____ CM

Answer 2

12

Question 3

ANOTHER WORD FOR ACCESSORY SPLEEN IS

Answer 3

SPLENUNCULI

Question 4

-LIGAMENTS AND MUSCLES THAT HOLD THE SPLEEN ARE ABSENT OR WEAKENED
-COMMON IN MULTIPAROUS WOMEN

Answer 4

WANDERING SPLEEN (SPLENOPTOSIS)

Question 5

______ AND _____ ARE THE MOST COMMON CAUSES OF GRANULOMAS

Answer 5

HISTOPLASMOSIS AND TUBERCULOSIS

Question 6

______ ARE THE MOST COMMON BENIGN PRIMARY NEOPLASM OF THE SPLEEN

Answer 6

HEMANGIOMAS

Question 7

_____ _____ MORE FREQUENTLY METASTIZES TO THE SPLEEN FOLLOWED BY BREAST AND LUNG CANCERQ

Answer 7

MALIGNANT MELANOMA

Question 7

SPLENIC ____ ARE COMMON IN PATIENTS WITH BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS AND SPLENIC ARTERY ANEURYSMS

Answer 7

INFARCTS

Question 8

SPLENIC _______ ARE SEEN AS COMPLEX CYSTIC LESIONS

Answer 8

ABSCESSES

Question 9

-MUTANT HEMOGLOBIN-
-SPLEEN BEGINS TO ENLARGE
-SPLENIC SEQUESTRATION (POOLING OF SICKLED CELLS)
-AUTOSPLENECTOMY OVER TIME

Answer 9

SICKLE CELL DISEASE

Question 10

CAUSES OF THIS CONDTION
-CONGESTION
-CIRRHOSIS
-RIGHT HEAT FAILURE
-PORTAL HYPERTENSION

Answer 10

SPLENOMEGALY

Question 11

BLOOD DISORDER RESULTING IN UNCONTROLLED RBC PRODUCTION

Answer 11

POLYCYTHEMIA VERA (THICKENED BLOOD)

Question 12

PRESENTS ITSELF AS CALCIFIED CIRCLE OR CYSTIC STRUCTURE

Answer 12

SPLENIC ARTERY ANEURYSM

Question 13

_____ IS ASSOCIATED WITH BILIARY ATRESIA/ABSENT GB

Answer 13

POLYSPLENIA (LEFT SIDED PREDOMINANCE)

Question 14

POLYSPLENIA AND ASPLENIA ARE TWO CLASSIFICATION OF

Answer 14

HETEROTAXIA

Question 15

______ IS ASSOCIATED WITH ABSENT SPLEEN, HORSESHOE KIDNEY, INTESTINAL MALROTATION

Answer 15

ASPLENIA( RIGHT SIDED PREDOMINANCE)

Question 16

______ OR ______ HEMATOMAS RESULTS WHEN THE SPLENIC CAPSULE REMAINS INTACT

Answer 16

SUBCAPSULAR OR INTRAPARENCHYMAL

Question 17

_____ OR ______ HEMATOMAS RESULTS WITH CAPSULE RUPTURE

Answer 17

PERISPLENIC OR INTRAPERITONEAL

Question 18

_____ IS UTILIZED IN THE ED TO DOCUMENT PRESENCES OF FLUID IN THE PERITONEAL CAVITY

Answer 18

FAST

Question 19

HX OF SPLENIC RUPTURE OR SURGERY, SPLENIC CELLS MAY IMPLANT IN THE CAVITY RESULTING IN ECTOPIC SPLEEN

Answer 19

POSTRAUMATIC SPLENOSIS

Question 20

THE ______ IS A LYPHATIC ORGAN THAT PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM DURING CHILDHOOD
-DISPROPPORTIONATELY LARGER IN INFANTS

Answer 20

THYMUS