Splenic involvement in endemic (murine) typhus: CT findings.
Murine typhus is a rickettsial infection that remains endemic in parts of Texas and California. Clinical manifestations of the infection are due to vasculitis. In a patient who acquired the infection in the United States, computed tomography demonstrated intrasplenic pseudoaneurysms, infarcts, and hemorrhage.
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Department of Radiology, Room 3550, Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center, 1200 North State Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013154:Spleen / Q000382:microbiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014437:Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014481:United States