A 26-year-old patient with a long-standing history of multip…

A 26-year-old patient with a long-standing history of multiple sickle cell crises and subsequent splenic infarctions presents to the sonography department for an abdominal sonogram. After thoroughly evaluating the left upper quadrant, only a small fraction of splenic tissue can be identified. This describes the process of?

A 48-year-old male patient with a history of severe, sudden…

A 48-year-old male patient with a history of severe, sudden onset of left upper quadrant pain without trauma presents to the sonography department for a sonogram of the spleen. You visualize a wedge-shaped, hypoechoic area within the spleen. This most likely represents a?