Splenic lymphoma pathology The key to assessment of splenic histology is good fixation. Ideally the spleen should be received in the laboratory fresh.

The spleen is the organ most commonly injured by blunt trauma and, consistent with guidelines for most organs removed in surgery, splenectomy tissue specimens are typically sent for pathology ...

Primary angiosarcoma of the spleen is a rare neoplasm that has not been well characterized. We describe the clinical, morphologic, and immunophenotypic findings of 28 cases of primary splenic ...

Left upper quadrant pain typically suggests pathology in the stomach, pancreas, spleen, or splenic flexure of the colon. On occasion, cardiac or pulmonary pathology can cause isolated LUQ pain.

It would be surprising if radiologists and pathologists in the endemic area of histoplasmosis were not impressed with the frequency of splenic calcification, even if their impressions are not ...

He requested that the organ be labeled as spleen and sent to pathology. "The person responsible for labeling the specimen knew it was not a spleen but did as they were instructed," the report stated.

THE recognition of aneurysms of the splenic artery is important since death from spontaneous hemorrhage ultimately occurs in the majority of cases and since these aneurysms may be completely excise ...

Splenic injury required a splenectomy. It was prospectively found from splenic histology and flow cytometry that the donor had hairy cell leukemia (or splenic marginal cell lymphoma).

Before making a decision about splenectomy, get a thorough hematopathology review of available diagnostic material—and advice from a lymphoma specialist.

A Florida surgeon accused of removing a man's liver instead of his spleen during a surgery, causing the patient to bleed out on the operating table, has had his medical license suspended by the state.

Lan J­Y, Yang JH, Lin AY, et al. Diagnosis of splenic cavernous lymphangioma by computed tomography and multimodal magnetic resonance imaging: a comparative analysis of imaging and pathology.