Splenic calcification
Dr Yuranga Weerakkody ◉ et al.
Splenic calcifications can occur is various shapes and forms and can occur from a myriad of aetiological factors.
The usual calcification observed in radiographs are the multiple, miliary form presenting numerous small rounded densities averaging from three to five millimeters in diameter where are thought to be often caused by phleboliths.
Other associations include:
- diffuse calcifications
- systemic lupus erythematosus: rare 1
- splenic granulomatous disease 6
- splenic amyloidosis 4-5
- splenic candidiasis 7
- splenic non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection 9
- infection with Pneumocystic jiroveci 7
- related to sickle cell disease 7
- following treatment of lymphoma: Hodgkin disease 3
- cat scratch disease: rare 8
- hepatosplenic anthrasilicosis: rare 2
- calcified splenic lesions
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- splenunculi (accessory spleen)
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- asplenia
- polysplenia
- splenogonadal fusion
- retrorenal spleen
- mass lesions
- infiltrative processes
- miscellaneous
- incidental splenic lesion (approach)
- congenital anomalies
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