Operative treatment of splenomegaly. E. Weil and Grégoire (Pr. med., 1927, No. 60)

The authors divide splenomegaly into 2 groups: 1) proliferative, where surgery is contraindicated,-this includes splenomegaly in leukemia, pseudoleukemia, spleen disease, and spleen sarcoma. Nodgkin'a and sarcoma of the spleen; 2) inflammatory chronic,-in tbc, syphilis, kala-azar, naludism, etc. In the latter group good results from splenectomy have been noted: Mauo, for example, had 7 successful cases out of 8 cases of tbc of the spleen and 5 successful cases out of 6 luetic splenomegaly.