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42 Cards in this Set
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What is the most common disease process of the spleen? |
Splenomegaly |
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What are the two types of Splenic Congestion? |
Acute - Moderately enlarged spleen Chronic - Diffusely enlarged spleen |
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What is the most common cause of Splenic Congestion? |
Cirrhosis of the liver |
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Where does Splenic Congestion cause dilation? |
Spenic hilum veins |
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What is a protein usually produced by cells in bone marrow that can be abnormally deposited in excess in any tissue or organ? |
Amyloidosis |
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What is the most frequency involved organ in Amyloidosis? |
Spleen |
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What type of Amyloidosis is found in the walls of the sheathed arteries or within the follicles but not in the red pulp? |
Nodular Amyloidosis |
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What type of Amyloidosis involved both the follicles and red pulp? |
Diffuse Amyloidosis |
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What occurs when fat and proteins are deposited abnormally in the body? |
Gaucher's Disease |
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What is a lysosome storage disease that is fatal and mostly affects female infants? |
Niemann-Pick Disease |
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What is the most common inherited disease among African Americans in the US? |
Sickle Cell Anemia |
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What is wrong with the blood with Sickle Cell Anemia? |
The blood contains an abnormal type of hemoglobin |
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What are the shapes of normal RBCs? |
Flattened, bi-concave |
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Do Sickle Cell Anemia patients have a large or small spleen? |
Small spleen |
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What abnormality causes the RBCs to be shaped like spheres instead of normal flattened, biconcave disks? |
Congenital Spherocytosis |
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What is the decreased life of erythrocytes? |
Hemolytic Anemia |
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What disorder is characterized by a malfunction of the immune system that produces auto-antibodies which attack RBCs as if they were foreign substances to the body? |
Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia |
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What is disorder of bone marrow an increased RBC production and hemoglobin concentration? |
Polycythemia Vera |
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What is it called when the body has difficulty making hemoglobin? |
Thalassemia |
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What is it called when the body has difficulty creating WBCs? |
Granulocytopoietic Abnormalities |
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What is the proliferation of the reticuloendothelium in any organ or tissue? |
Reticuloendotheliosis |
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What is the proliferation of reticuloendothelial cells in all tissues? |
Letterer-Siwe Disease |
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What is another name forLetterer-Siwe Disease? |
Nonlipid Reticuloendotheliosis |
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What is a rare, benign, chronic condition where lipids accumulate in the body and manifest as granulomas? |
Hand-Schuller-Christian Disease |
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What is cancer of the blood cells? |
Leukemia |
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What is the sonographic appearance of a splenic infection? |
Bulls eye pattern Hypoechoic lesion |
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What is the most common finding of AIDS? |
Splenomegaly |
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What is the most common cause of focal splenic lesions? |
Splenic infarction |
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What is splenic infarction caused by? |
Occlusion of the major splenic artery |
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What is the sonographic appearance of splenic infarction? |
Wedge-shaped lesion |
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What is the most commonly injured organ as a result of blunt trauma? |
Spleen |
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What are the two outcomes of splenic blunt trauma? |
Capsule intact Capsule rupture |
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What are two classifications of splenic cysts? |
Parasitic Nonparasitic |
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What kind of parasite forms in the spleen but is not common in the US? |
Echinoccus |
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What is another name for a cyst caused by an Echinoccus? |
Hydatid Disease/cyst |
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What is the most common primary benign neoplasm? |
Hamartoma |
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What is a jumbled growth of blood vessels? |
Cavernous Hemangioma |
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What is a malformation of the lymphatics? |
Cystic Lymphangioma |
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What is another name for Primary Splenic CA? |
Hemangiosarcoma |
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What is the most common type of blood CA in the US? |
Lymphoma |
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What are the most common patterns of Hodgkins Lymphoma? |
Diffuse Small nodular |
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What is the result of the spread of disease from another primary site? |
Metastases |
