Book Review: Tropical Splenomegaly

Splenectomy for Tropical Splenomegaly

Splenectomy in tropical splenomegaly.

"Big Spleen Disease"-Hamilton et al. MEBRITCLSH 825 44%. His only treatment has been a 15-day course of primaquine followed by 100 mg. of proguanil daily. This is further evidence for a malarial cause of this syndrome and also for implicating the spleen in the plasma volume changes. The role of the spleen is also shown by a case of Felty's syndrome (Pengelly, 1966), in which a marked reduction ...

Results of Splenectomy for Tropical Splenomegaly

The last one was a case of intracapsular rupture, the capsule forming a big cyst and filling up most of the abdomen. The photographs illustrate the enormous size of the spleens as compared with the anatomical specimen in the middle; the spleens had got considerably hardened and shrunken in the pathological museum. The small spleen is a papier maclie model of a normal organ from the anatomy muse...

CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS Tropical Splenomegaly Syndrome

A one-day symposium was held at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London on 17 November. The participants comprised experts in tropical medicine, parasitology, pathology, immunology, and haematology, most of whom had had personal experience with splenomegaly in the tropics. They met to review the present state of knowledge and to define those areas where further research was likely to be...

Book Review

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