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| metabolic disorder by amyloid deposits in organs and tissue |
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| fat and proteins are deposited abnormally in the body |
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| predominantly infant females, inhereted, hepatomegaly, brain degression, uncordinated muscles, die by age 3 |
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| RA, osteomyitis, multiple myeloma, TB, ankylosing spondylitis |
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| Amyloidosis, Gaucher's Disease, Niemann-Pick Disease |
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| inhereted as autosomal recessive trait, abnormality of globin genes in hemoglobin, crescent moon shaped blood cell, African descent, infarction |
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| spheriod or globe shape blood cell, splenomegaly, infarction |
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| decreased life of erythrocytes, rate of destruction is greater than the bone marrow can compensate |
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| Chronic, involves bone marrow elements, increased blood cell mass and hemoglobin concentration |
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| deficient synthesis of hemoglobin, target cells, short life span, splenomegaly fills entire abdomin, mediterranean and Asian descent |
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| myeloproliferative disorders |
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| acute and chronic myelogenous leukemia, polycythemia vera, myelofibrosis, megakaryocytic leukemia, erythroleukemia, parenchyma is hypoechoic to liver |
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| granulocytopoietic abnormalities |
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| hyperplasia resulting from acute or chronic infection, possible contaminated water source, bright echogenic lesions, calcium in splenic artery |
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| isoechoic spleen, lipid storage in phagocytes |
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| children under 2 yrs old, hepatosplenomegaly, fever, rapidly fatal, splenic lymph nodes, bone marrow |
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| hand-schuller-christian disease |
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| benign or chronic, children over age of 2, diabetes, moderate hepatosplenomegaly |
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| nonlipid reticuloendotheliosis |
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| lymphopoietic abnormalities |
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| lymphocytic leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease |
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| chronic myelogenous leukemia |
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| responsible for more extreme splenomegaly than any other disease. leukemia |
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| splenic abscess, infarctions, trauma, cysts, benign or malignant tumors |
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| infection from distant foci in abdomen or inflammatory process extends directly for adjacent organs |
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| most prominent feature is splenomegaly |
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| spenomegaly, multiple hypoechoic well defined focal lesions, lymphoma |
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| most common cause of focal lesions caused by occlusions of splenic artery and branches. vegetation of left side heart valves. |
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| RUQ pain, hematoma, blunt force to RUQ |
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| parasitic or non parasitic, caused by trauma, infection, or infarction |
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| isoechoic compared to normal parachyms, hamartoma, cavernous hemangioma, cystic lymphangioma |
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| asymptomatic, solitary or multiple, well defined, not encapsulated, hyperechoic with solid and cystic components |
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| a large inhomogenous echogenic mass with multiple small hypoechoic areas |
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| hemangiosarcoma, lymphoma, metastases |
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| rare, vascular endothelium of spleen |
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| diffuse involvemen, focal small nodular lesions, focal large nodular lesions, bulky disease |
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| hematogenous spread from another primary site, most common is melanoma (skin cancer) |
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| splenic carvenous hemangioma |
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| unusual amount of blood in a part |
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| female predominance, pt. dies by age three |
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| parasite that forms cysts |
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