A one-day symposium was held at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London on 17 November. The participants comprised experts in tropical medicine, parasitology, pathology, immunology, and haematology, most of whom had had personal experience with splenomegaly in the tropics. They met to review the present state of knowledge and to define those areas where further research was likely to be...

BACKGROUND It is important to detect splenomegaly as it can have important diagnostic implications. Previous studies, however, have shown that the traditional physical examination is limited in its ability to rule in or rule out splenomegaly. OBJECTIVE To determine if performing point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in addition to the traditional physical examination improves the sensitivity ...

PURPOSE Our aim was to assess the validity of the ICD-10 code for splenomegaly in the Danish National Registry of Patients (DNRP), as well as to investigate which underlying diseases explained the observed splenomegaly. BACKGROUND Splenomegaly is a common finding in patients referred to an internal medical department and can be caused by a large spectrum of diseases, including haematological ...