Description liver cancer The liver is the largest gland of the body, which are stored in the right diaphragmatic arc. Liver weight in the range 1400-1800 g. There are many types of cancer that affect the liver. These tumors are…
Liver cancer
enlargement of the spleen
Other names: splenomegaly
Enlargement of the spleen is usually caused by some hematological diseases (blood disease), but can accompany many other diseases.
The main function of the spleen is to remove aging red blood cells and immune function. It is located on the left in the amount of the 10th rib. Slight increase may not have any effect and can only detect by ultrasound, at higher magnification can already feel the spleen doctor and the patient may experience problems, such as a feeling of pressure under the left rib arch or a feeling of fullnesslimiting food intake.
From haematological disease is a common cause of enlargement of the spleen hemolytic anemia, in which are somehow damaged red blood cells, and increasingly so trapped in the spleen, the spleen is also increased or leukemia or lymphoma.
Splenic enlargement is also in some infectious diseases such as infectious mononucleosis, malaria, infectious hepatitis and others.
To determine the cause of an enlarged spleen doctor must first perform blood tests or other tests, treatment then focuses on the underlying disease.
Sicknesses with this symptom:
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Anemia
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