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The signs and symptoms depend on the organ involved. [2] Often, no symptoms or only mild symptoms are seen. [2] When it affects the lungs, wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, or chest pain may occur. [3] Some may have Löfgren syndrome with fever, enlarged hilar lymph nodes, arthritis, and a rash known as erythema nodosum. [2]
An accessory spleen is a small nodule of splenic tissue found apart from the main body of the spleen. Accessory spleens are found in approximately 10 percent of the population [1] and are typically around 1 centimetre in diameter. They may resemble a lymph node or a small spleen.
Gandy–Gamna nodules may also be seen in chronic pulmonary congestion. Gandy–Gamna nodules or Gandy-Gamna bodies, sometimes known as Gamna-Gandy bodies or Gamna-Gandy nodules, are small yellow-brown, brown, or rust-colored foci found in the spleen in patients with splenomegaly due to portal hypertension, [1] as well as sickle cell disease.
Signs and symptoms are also applied to physiological states outside the context of disease, as for example when referring to the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, or the symptoms of dehydration. Sometimes a disease may be present without showing any signs or symptoms when it is known as being asymptomatic . [ 13 ]
It is characterized by an enlarged left lobe of the liver with a sharp edge and an enlarged spleen with nodules. [19] The liver and spleen enlargement is usually mild, but in severe cases, they can enlarge to the level of the belly button and even into the pelvis. [19]
Splenosis in the abdominal category may occur in up to 65% of traumatic ruptures of the spleen. [3] Splenosis in the thoracic cavity is rarer, because it requires the simultaneous rupture of the diaphragm. The implantation of spleen tissue under the skin may result from abdominal surgery or gunshot wounds. Splenosis of the brain or liver is ...
Fever is the most common symptom of splenic abscess, followed by abdominal pain and a tender mass on palpation of the left upper quadrant of the abdomen. The common signs and symptoms described of a splenic abscess include the triad of fever, left upper quadrant tenderness, and leukocytosis is present only in one-third of the cases.
Kehr's sign in the left shoulder is considered a classic symptom of a ruptured spleen. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] May result from diaphragmatic or peridiaphragmatic lesions, renal calculi, splenic injury or ruptured ectopic pregnancy.