SPLEEN Flashcards
THE SPLEEN REMOVES DAMAGED _____ _____ FROM CIRCULATION
BLOOD CELLS
SPLENOMEGALY IS INDICATED WITH A LONGITUDINAL MEASUREMENT >____ CM
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ANOTHER WORD FOR ACCESSORY SPLEEN IS
SPLENUNCULI
-LIGAMENTS AND MUSCLES THAT HOLD THE SPLEEN ARE ABSENT OR WEAKENED
-COMMON IN MULTIPAROUS WOMEN
WANDERING SPLEEN (SPLENOPTOSIS)
______ AND _____ ARE THE MOST COMMON CAUSES OF GRANULOMAS
HISTOPLASMOSIS AND TUBERCULOSIS
______ ARE THE MOST COMMON BENIGN PRIMARY NEOPLASM OF THE SPLEEN
HEMANGIOMAS
_____ _____ MORE FREQUENTLY METASTIZES TO THE SPLEEN FOLLOWED BY BREAST AND LUNG CANCERQ
MALIGNANT MELANOMA
SPLENIC ____ ARE COMMON IN PATIENTS WITH BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS AND SPLENIC ARTERY ANEURYSMS
INFARCTS
SPLENIC _______ ARE SEEN AS COMPLEX CYSTIC LESIONS
ABSCESSES
-MUTANT HEMOGLOBIN-
-SPLEEN BEGINS TO ENLARGE
-SPLENIC SEQUESTRATION (POOLING OF SICKLED CELLS)
-AUTOSPLENECTOMY OVER TIME
SICKLE CELL DISEASE
CAUSES OF THIS CONDTION
-CONGESTION
-CIRRHOSIS
-RIGHT HEAT FAILURE
-PORTAL HYPERTENSION
SPLENOMEGALY
BLOOD DISORDER RESULTING IN UNCONTROLLED RBC PRODUCTION
POLYCYTHEMIA VERA (THICKENED BLOOD)
PRESENTS ITSELF AS CALCIFIED CIRCLE OR CYSTIC STRUCTURE
SPLENIC ARTERY ANEURYSM
_____ IS ASSOCIATED WITH BILIARY ATRESIA/ABSENT GB
POLYSPLENIA (LEFT SIDED PREDOMINANCE)
POLYSPLENIA AND ASPLENIA ARE TWO CLASSIFICATION OF
HETEROTAXIA
______ IS ASSOCIATED WITH ABSENT SPLEEN, HORSESHOE KIDNEY, INTESTINAL MALROTATION
ASPLENIA( RIGHT SIDED PREDOMINANCE)
______ OR ______ HEMATOMAS RESULTS WHEN THE SPLENIC CAPSULE REMAINS INTACT
SUBCAPSULAR OR INTRAPARENCHYMAL
_____ OR ______ HEMATOMAS RESULTS WITH CAPSULE RUPTURE
PERISPLENIC OR INTRAPERITONEAL
_____ IS UTILIZED IN THE ED TO DOCUMENT PRESENCES OF FLUID IN THE PERITONEAL CAVITY
FAST
HX OF SPLENIC RUPTURE OR SURGERY, SPLENIC CELLS MAY IMPLANT IN THE CAVITY RESULTING IN ECTOPIC SPLEEN
POSTRAUMATIC SPLENOSIS
THE ______ IS A LYPHATIC ORGAN THAT PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM DURING CHILDHOOD
-DISPROPPORTIONATELY LARGER IN INFANTS
THYMUS
