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Management of Massive Splenomegaly [PDF]
Clinical Case Reports, 2021 57-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of fatigue, fever and increasing abdominal pain.He had completed treatment for follicular lymphoma and JAK2 positive myeloproliferative disorder 2 months previously. This case demonstrates therapeutic and diagnostic rationale for open splenectomy in, to our knowledge, one of the largest recorded ...
Hudson, Victoria E +2 more
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Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2005 Radiotherapy for massive, symptomatic splenomegaly has been used in a palliative setting since the early 1990’s. Massive splenomegaly may be seen in CML, CLL, hairy cell leukemia and splenic marginal zone lymphomas, prolymphocytic leukemia ...
Hemendra Mod +3 more
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Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases, 2023 Massive splenomegaly, defined as length spleen greater than 20 cm, is a relatively rare entity with a broad differential. Primary splenomegaly occurs in the setting of leukemias and lymphomas, whereas secondary splenomegaly is more common and carries a ...
Meagan Mayo +3 more
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Cancer Medicine, 2022 Background & aims Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) play an increasingly important role in the treatment of primary liver cancer (PLC). Some patients with PLC experience symptoms of splenomegaly.
Chang Hong, Zhong-Yi Dong
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DiseasesPurpose: To evaluate the ability of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) elastography in differentiating benign from malignant etiologies of splenomegaly based on differences in splenic stiffness.
Amjad Alhyari +6 more
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Splenomegaly, hypersplenism, and hereditary disorders with splenomegaly
Open Journal of Genetics, 2013 Splenomegaly, sometimes of massive extent, occurs in a large number of hereditary diseases, some relatively prevalent and others, rare to ultra-rare. Because physicians are often unfamiliar with the less common disorders, patients may suffer because of diagnostic delay or diagnostic error and may undergo invasive, non-innocuous procedures such as ...
Neal J Weinreb
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Giant spleen as a surgical challenge: Case report and literature review [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2022 Introduction. According to the guidelines of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery, any case where the maximum craniocaudal splenic diameter exceeds 20 cm is considered massive splenomegaly.
Erić Dragan +4 more
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Chronic neutrophilic leukemia: A case report [PDF]
Romanian Medical Journal, 2023 Objectives. We present a case report of a patient with malaise, abdominal pain, and vomiting, later underwent bone marrow biopsy and found to have CNL with no genetic mutation. Case presentation.
Rahmat Cahyanur +6 more
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COVID-19: Chest Computed Tomography Imaging Patterns in Assessment of Disease Progression and Severity [PDF]
International Journal of Anatomy Radiology and Surgery, 2021 Introduction: Chest Computed Tomography (CT) plays an important role in the diagnosis and management of Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) infection.
Sachin Thammegowda +4 more
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Prevalence of splenomegaly and factors contributing to splenomegaly among pancytopenia patients: a facility-based cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2023 Background: The spleen is an organ that cannot be clinically felt in a normal individual. Splenomegaly is a significant diagnostic indicator of the presence of underlying pathology.
S., Basanth Kumar +2 more
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