Medical Imaging of the Spleen

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Anatomy, Embryology, Histology and Physiology of the Spleen

   • W. J. Stevens, H. Bortier, F. Van Meir

   Pages 1-6

3. The Normal Spleen on Different Imaging Modalities

   • S. E. Falbo, Z. H. Jafri

   Pages 7-18

4. Congenital Disorders of the Spleen

   • D. Vanbeckevoort, G. Verswijvel, L. Van Hoe

   Pages 19-28

5. Splenosis

   • A. I. De Backer, A. M. De Schepper

   Pages 29-36

6. The Spleen in Hematologic Disorders

   • K. Ito, D. G. Mitchell

   Pages 37-47

7. The Spleen in Systemic Disorders

   • F. Vanhoenacker, A. M. De Schepper

   Pages 49-66

8. The Spleen in Infectious Disorders

   • A. Drevelengas

   Pages 67-80

9. Trauma of the Spleen

   • B. Corthouts, H. Degryse

   Pages 81-88

10. Vascular Pathology of the Spleen

    • C. C. Hoeffel

    Pages 89-100

11. Tumoral Pathology of the Spleen

    • K. J. Mortelé, P. J. Mergo, M. Kunnen, P. R. Ros

    Pages 101-122

12. Pseudotumors of the Spleen

    • H. Irie, H. Honda, T. Kuroiwa, K. Yoshimitsu, H. Aibe, T. Tajima et al.

    Pages 123-132

13. Splenic Pathology in Infancy and Childhood

    • E. C. Benya

    Pages 133-139

14. Interventional Radiology of the Spleen

    • H. Vereycken, R. Van Hee, E. Totté, L. Hendrickx

    Pages 141-146

15. Differential Diagnostic Tables

    • J. L. Bloem, A. Spilt, P. Vanhoenacker, B. Op De Beeck, J. Delanote, H. Rigauts et al.

    Pages 147-153

16. Back Matter

    Pages 155-167

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I would like to express my great appreciation to the editors of this volume, Prof. A. De Schepper and Dr. F. Vanhoenacker, for all their efforts and their enthusiastic commitment to this book. I am very grateful to them for managing to involve so many leading experts, resulting in a much -needed high -quality and absolutely up-to-date text­ book on the spleen, an organ which has not always received the attention it deserves from radiologists. As series editor, I am particularly grateful to the volume editors for adhering strictly to the planed schedule. Their punctuality enabled Springer-Verlag to reduce the pro­ duction time of this volume to a minimum. I am very much convinced that this volume on the spleen responds to an important need within the radiological community and that many radiologists will greatly bene­ fit from it. However, surgeons and internal medicine specialists will also be interested in this excellent comprehensive overview of modern radiological imaging of splenic dis­ orders. Leuven ALBERT L. BAERT Preface Not infrequently, the spleen is regarded as the "silent and forgotten" organ of the abdomen. Though primary splenic diseases are rare, the spleen is a frequent site of sec­ ondary manifestations in a wide range of hematological, immunological, oncological, infectious, vascular and systemic disorders. Despite this broad spectrum of splenic dis­ eases, radiological literature on splenic pathology is rather sparse.

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• Department of Radiology, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium

  Arthur M. Schepper, Filip Vanhoenacker

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