Don't worry about it. Check this out. The spleen's that soft, purple organ located right behind the stomach and under the lungs. It's about five inches wide and weighs about six ounces.

The first pathology test I had back from the lab said I had cancer and I started treatment based on this report but then the ...

A pathology report from Aug. 22, however, said that what had been labeled Bryan’s spleen had actually been his liver. Zarzaur ...

Handle tissues gently. Grasp and cut samples at the edges, so the areas of interest aren't damaged. At right is a section of mouse spleen damaged by rough handling. Many of the cells are distorted ...

The bigger spleen makes more oxygen available in their blood for diving. The researchers have published their results in the academic journal Cell. Located close to the stomach, the fist-sized ...

Surgery to remove the spleen is not a common treatment for hairy cell leukaemia (HCL). The spleen is quite a large organ. In HCL, it sometimes becomes bigger and can cause problems. Chemotherapy ...

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) is the only Center of its kind in the U.S., which coordinates autopsies and neuropathologic examinations of suspected prion disease ...

The Department of Pathology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine actively integrates research into the mechanisms of diseases at the genetic, molecular and cellular levels with clinical ...

Objectives: To determine normal spleen dimensions in a healthy collegiate athletic population. Methods: 631 Division I collegiate athletes from one university participated in the study. During ...

Later, in 1951, while working with Dr. Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology at Harvard, Dr. Uzman isolated and described the lipoprotein in Gaucher's disease, an anemia of the spleen that runs in ...

In 1938 Penati and Vigliani 3 reviewed the available world literature on benzene myelopathy and pointed out that, in some cases, the pathology ... enlarged liver and a spleen palpable 2 ...