Child of 10 months-old aims to control ultrasonography of abdomen, kidneys and heart with diagnoses by results of US at the age of 1 month: deformation of GB, pielectasis and PFO. Spleen described as normal. In the current US PFO and pielectasis not found, but found no spleen, in the form as we used to see it - it is represented by 5 or more isolated lobes rounded / oval shape a maximum size about of 3 cm, also of 2 cm and 1 cm. (polysplenia) Caudate lobe of liver extends beyond the border of the liver (enlarged?) The pancreas is not reliably visualized (shielded by intestinal gas? anomaly?). The left kidney is enlarged. Recommended CT of abdomen. Reference. Many of us are familiar with the term accessory spleen, they can be even two or more. Polysplenia term means not only having multiple spleens, but the absence of the main/parent spleen! This syndrome may be associated with a large range of other abnormalities of organs and systems. (Heterotaxy. Left isomerism) Read also. external link external link |