Incidence of accessory spleen in Bangladeshi cadaver

Abstract

This cross sectional descriptive study was done to find out the incidence of accessory spleen in Bangladeshi people to create awareness of the presence of an accessory spleen in a patient prior to splenectomy. During this study one hundred and twenty human cadaver of which eighty-seven male and thirty- three female of different age group were dissected in the morgue of forensic medicine department of Mymesingh Medical College. This was a cross sectional and descriptive study carried out in the department of anatomy of Mymensingh medical college, from July 2007 to June 2008. Accessory spleen was found in 20% cases where 20.68% cases in male and 18.18% in female. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/cbmj.v1i1.13824 Community Based Medical Journal Vol.1(1) 2012 17-19

Variation of Shapes of Spleen of Bangladeshi People

“…Sangeeta, Varalakshmi and Sahana 7 studied 53 spleens and found that 18(34%) were wedge shaped, 18(34%) were triangular, 5(9.4%) were oval, 8(15%) were tetrahedral, 2(3.7%) were heart shaped and 2(3.7%) were semilunar but in present study heart shape and semilunar shaped spleen were not found. Chaudhuryet al 8 studied 62 spleens found that 21(33.87%) were tetrahedral shaped, 20(32.25%) were wedge shaped, 12(19.35%) were triangular shaped, 5(8.06%) were oval shaped and 4(6.45%) were irregular in shape. Alex et al 9 studied 70 spleens in India and found that 37 were oval (52.9%), 13 had wedge shape (18.6%), 10 were triangular (14.3%) and nine were tetrahedral (12.9%).…”