Littoral Cell Angioma of the Spleen: CT Features with Clinicopathologic Comparison

Radiology

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 485-490

  Levy, Angela D ^a,b   Abbott, Robert M ^b,c   Abbondanzo, Susan L ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), contrast enhancement; Spleen, CT; Spleen, neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSPLENISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPLEEN HEMANGIOMA; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLEEN TUMOR; SPLENOMEGALY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; SPLENOMEGALY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1642499205     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2302030196     Document Type: Review

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