Mariya Kobi MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Niveditha Pinnamaneni MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Alexander Benjamin Baxter MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Aspan Singh Ohson MD, MS, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Mark Philip Bernstein MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

John Michael McMenamy MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

1. Recognize traumatic and non-traumatic splenic emergencies, classifications and urgent management. 2. Understand splenic manifestations of serious systemic illnesses. 3. Recognize incidental and developmental splenic lesions that require no further evaluation.   

1. Normal patterns of splenic enhancement 2. Splenic Trauma & Classifications • Blunt • Penetrating • Associated injuries 3. Acute abdomen related splenic disease • Splenic torsion • Splenic infarct • Conditions predisposing to splenic rupture 4. Splenic involvement in systemic disease for example: • Lymphoma • Mononucleosis • Splenic abscess (bacterial and fungal) • Sarcoid • TB • Sickle cell disease • Hypersplenism and consumptive coagulopathy • Splenomegaly in portal hypertension (splenic and portal vein thrombosis) • Metastatic disease 5. Incindentalomas • Hemangiomas • Lymphangiomas • Cysts

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Kobi, M, Pinnamaneni, N, Baxter, A, Ohson, A, Bernstein, M, McMenamy, J, Splenic Trauma, Emergencies, and Incindentalomas.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14015399.html