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Congenital anomalies of the spleen include persistent lobulation, accessory spleen, polysplenia, asplenia, splenogonadal fusion, and wandering spleen. These anomalies can be solitary or part of a syndrome.
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Abdel-Latif, M., Shalaby, M.S. (2019). Spleen. In: Carachi, R., Doss, S. (eds) Clinical Embryology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26158-4_40
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