214 Surgical Diseases and Surgery of the Dog 



Like other important glands, when the spleen is removed in 

 part, the remaining portion will undergo compensatory enlargement. 

 An instance is recorded by Landenbach in which the organ was 

 almost entirely extirpated and six months later was found to have 

 become completely regenerated. 



COMPLETE SPLENECTOMY. 



The animal being anesthetised and hoppled in the dorsal posi- 

 tion, make the abdominal incision slightly to the left of the linea 

 alba immediately anterior to the umbilicus. Insert the fingers in 

 the left hypochqjidrium and draw the organ forward through the 

 wound. Secure all vessels and their supporting tissues at the en- 

 trance to the hilus in three or four silk ligatures and make the 

 division on the occluded side. 



PARTIAL SPLENECTOMY. 



Secure the vascular branches supplying the portion of the organ 

 it is intended to remove with very strong double silk ligatures and 

 divide between the knots. Apply an elastic ligature around the organ 

 or ligate it in half-inch sections with continuous silk suture, and 

 remove the occluded mass with scissors. 



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Bardeleben — Dlasertatlo de gland, etc. Berlin. 1841. 



Garrlfere & Vanverts — Comptes rendus de la Soe. de Biol. 1899, p. 244. 



Clarke — Bphem. nat. cur. ann. 1676. 



Crips — A Treatise on the Structure and Use of the Spleen. London. 1855. 



Prouin — La Semalne M6dicale. 1902, No. 17. 



Gibson— Jonrn. Anat. & Phys. 1886-86, p. 324. 



H6don— Comptes rendus de la Soc. de Biol. 1899, p. 660. 



Jonnesco — Congres de Chirnrg. 1897. 



Jordan— Lancet. 1898, p. 208. 



Kuester — Cited by Adelmann in Langenheck's Arch. f. kiln. Cblr. 36, p. 485.. 



Landenbach — Vlrchow's Arctiiv. 41, p. 201. 



Picard & Malassez— 6az. MSdicale. 1878, No. 15. 



Pliny — Historia naturalis. 



SalTioli — Moleschott'B Untersachangen. 12. 



SpreuU— Veterinarian. 1868. 



Vitzon— Rec. de Mfid. V6t6r. 1894. 



Vulpian— Gaz. MSdlcale. 1865, No. 33. 



ZesaB — Langenbeck's Archiv. f. kiln. Ghirnr. 28. 



