CANCER OF THE SCROTUM: The Etiology, Clinical Features, and Treatment of the Disease

Abstract

What may actually happen after excision of the spleen is well illustrated by a case published by McAdam Eccles and Freer.8" In this case splenectomy was performed for traumatic rupture in 1910. In 1920 the patient was again operated on for a ventral hernia, the result of the first operation, and on this occasion what appeared to be a spleen normal in every respect was observed in the course of the operation. The evidence of a new formation of a spleen seems perfectly clear from the facts presented. The authors regard this as having resulted from a hypertropliied spleniculus which may well have escaped notice at the first operation. This remarkable occurrence seerms to indicate clearly tlle advisability of leaving behind any suclh spleniculus wlhiclh mnay be observed in the course of an operation for splenectomy necessitated by trauma.