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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.
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
The ICD-10 Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) is a set of diagnosis codes used in the United States of America. [1] It was developed by a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, [2] as an adaption of the ICD-10 with authorization from the World Health Organization.
Adoption of ICD-10-CM was slow in the United States. Since 1979, the US had required ICD-9-CM codes [11] for Medicare and Medicaid claims, and most of the rest of the American medical industry followed suit. On 1 January 1999 the ICD-10 (without clinical extensions) was adopted for reporting mortality, but ICD-9-CM was still used for morbidity ...
An easy way to remember the anatomy of the spleen is the 1×3×5×7×9×10×11 rule. The spleen is 1 by 3 by 5 inches (3 by 8 by 13 cm), weighs approximately 7 oz (200 g), and lies between the ninth and eleventh ribs on the left-hand side and along the axis of the tenth rib.
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Splenic infarct seen on CT Healed splenic infarct. Several factors may increase the tendency for clot formation, such as specific infections (such as infectious mononucleosis, [9] [dubious – discuss] [better source needed] cytomegalovirus infection, [10] malaria, [11] or babesiosis [12]), inherited clotting disorders (thrombophilia, such as Factor V Leiden, antiphospholipid syndrome ...
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