Splenic

Evaluate patients who report left upper abdominal or shoulder pain for an enlarged spleen or splenic rupture.

The female lion, whose name means “sugar” in Swahili, died from splenic lymphoma after going through chemotherapy treatments since October, said the zoo.

Bacillus anthracis Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph shows splenic tissue from a monkey with inhalational anthrax; featured are rod-shaped bacilli (yellow) and an erythrocyte (red).

Function Micrograph of splenic tissue showing the red pulp (red), white pulp (blue) and a thickened inflamed capusule (mostly pink - top of image).

However, as he jumped towards the table, the corner of the table struck his abdomen, resulting in a splenic rupture from which he lost a significant amount of blood.

The fundus of the stomach, and also the upper portion of the greater curvature, is supplied by the short gastric artery which arises from the splenic artery.

Transverse section of the spleen, showing the trabecular tissue and the splenic vein and its tributaries.