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• flexure: The colon then goes downhill via a bend called the splenic flexure.

• rupture: A diagnosis of splenic rupture should be considered in patients reporting left upper abdominal pain or shoulder tip pain.

• injury: CT grading of the splenic injury failed to correlate with the operative findings.

• lymphoma: No difference in CD20 ABC between BM and PB samples was found in splenic lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, or follicular lymphoma.

• artery: The splenic artery supplies the remainder of the gland.

• vein: The key section is 1580 which shows the junction between the superior mesenteric and splenic veins to form the hepatic portal vein.