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Contrast sonographic appearance of sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation of the spleen

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Acknowledgments

Many thanks to the nurses of the infectious disease department (Monica Cocchi, Lorenza Colella, Livia Davolio and Nicolina Solomita), whose help in the everyday medical practice permits us to complete the grey-scale sonography with intravenous injection of the contrast agents when needed.

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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. The patient provided written informed consent to enrolment in the study and to the inclusion in this article of information that could potentially lead to their identification.

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  1. Infectious Diseases Department, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Guido Menozzi

  2. Internal Medicine, San Sebastiano Hospital, Correggio, Italy

    Valeria Maccabruni

  3. Department of Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Angela Ferrari

  4. Department of Pathology, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Elena Tagliavini

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Menozzi, G., Maccabruni, V., Ferrari, A. et al. Contrast sonographic appearance of sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation of the spleen. J Ultrasound 18, 305–307 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40477-014-0100-y

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