Palpable spleens in newborn term infants.
Spleen tip size was determined in 470 full-term appropriate-for-gestational-age infants within the first 24 hours of life. The spleen was palpable in 17.9 percent of them. It was palpated less than 1 cm below the costal margin in 11.7 percent, between 1 and 2 cm in 3.6 percent, and 2 cm or more in 2.6 percent. No cause for spleen enlargement was found except in two infants with ABO hemolytic disease.
D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010173:Palpation; D013154:Spleen / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000473:pathology; D013163:Splenomegaly / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis