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The spleen is the largest accumulation of lymphoid tissue in the human body. A wide variety of disorders may be encountered in the pediatric spleen, including congenital, neoplastic, infectious, and traumatic abnormalities. In addition, the spleen may be the primary site of pathology or manifest abnormalities as part of a systemic disorder. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging can yield important diagnostic information about an array of pediatric splenic disorders and help direct clinical decision making. This chapter reviews up-to-date MR imaging techniques; splenic anatomy including embryology, normal development, and anatomic variants; and selected disorders affecting the spleen in the pediatric population.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Gary R. Schooler

  2. Diagnostic Imaging, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Alison R. Hart

  3. Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Nathan C. Hull

  4. Division of Thoracic Imaging, Department of Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Edward Y. Lee

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    Edward Y. Lee

  2. Division of Pediatric Radiology, Departments of Radiology and Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Montefiore Medical Center Bronx, New York, NY, USA

    Mark C. Liszewski

  3. Division of Pediatric Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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Schooler, G.R., Hart, A.R., Hull, N.C., Lee, E.Y. (2020). Spleen. In: Lee, E., Liszewski, M., Gee, M., Daltro, P., Restrepo, R. (eds) Pediatric Body MRI. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31989-2_10

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