A 42-year-old man with known aortic valve endocarditis presents with left upper abdominal pain and low-grade fever.

Fig. 50.1 (A–C) Axial contrast-enhanced CT images show multiple, well-defined, wedge-shaped areas of low attenuation in the spleen and left kidney associated with a left pleural effusion.

Septic emboli causing infarcts in the spleen and left kidney

• Splenic abscess
  
• Splenic neoplasm
  
• Splenic laceration