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The “Jokari sign”,  an imaging feature diagnostic of a wandering accessory spleen Cover

The “Jokari sign”, an imaging feature diagnostic of a wandering accessory spleen

By: N Vander Maren and  N Verbeeck  
Open Access
|Sep 2015

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Figure 1

Axial enhanced CT slice: the WAS (arrow) between the upper renal pole and the spleen.

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Figure 2

Three years ago, a more caudal slice of the same patient as in Fig. 1: the WAS between the stomach and the left colon.

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Figure 3

Curved multipanar (A) and 3D (B) CT reconstructions besides a schematic drawing of the “Jokari sign”: the WAS (star), its long, thin vascular pedicle (thin arrows) and the splenic artery (thick arrow).

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Figure 4A–C

Curved multiplanar (A) and 3D (B) CT reconstructions besides a schematic drawing of the “beauty mirror sign” (C): the accessory spleen (star), its short vascular pedicle (thin arrow) and the splenic artery (thick arrow).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jbr-btr.857 | Journal eISSN: 2514-8281
Language: English
Published on: Sep 15, 2015
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2015 N Vander Maren, N Verbeeck, published by Ubiquity Press
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