I would like to express my great appreciation to the editors of this volume, Prof. A. De Schepper and Dr. F. Vanhoenacker, for all their efforts and their enthusiastic commitment to this book. I am very grateful to them for managing to involve so many leading experts, resulting in a much -needed high -quality and absolutely up-to-date text- book on the spleen, an organ which has not always received the attention it deserves from radiologists. As series editor, I am particularly grateful to the volume editors for adhering strictly to the planed schedule. Their punctuality enabled...