“…Many disease states of the spleen have been associated with splenic rupture. These include: malaria, infectious mononucleosis, typhoid fever, typhus, subacute bacterial endocarditis, tuberculosis, influenza, tularaemia, relapsing fever, Banti's disease, pneumonia, prodromal chickenpox, sarcoidosis, Felty's syndrome, splenic infarct, splenic vein thrombosis, portal vein thrombosis, splenic tumours and leukaemias 1 2 .…”