Miliary Calcifications in the Spleen
| Autor: | Theodore M. Berman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1937 |
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| Zdroj: | Radiology. 29:37-39 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1315 0033-8419 |
| DOI: | 10.1148/29.1.37 |
| Popis: | CALCIFICATION in the spleen is an occasional incidental finding in roentgenograms of the abdomen. As might be expected, the etiologic factors are numerous. Larger areas of calcification measuring up to from two to three centimeters in diameter are uncommon and may be caused by echinococcus cysts, old infarcts, healed abscesses, rarely by bone-forming metastases, and the so-called primary tuberculosis of the spleen occurring in young adults. In the latter disease, marked splenomegaly associated with large granular areas of calcification constitutes a pathognomonic picture (4). The usual calcification observed in roentgenograms of the spleen is the multiple, miliary form presenting numerous small rounded densities averaging from three to five millimeters in diameter. This is the type that will be considered in the present paper. Phleboliths (calcified venous thrombi) and tubercles are the most frequent causes, with calcifying hyaline perisplenitis a rare factor. There is a general opinion that these densiti... |
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