Abstract
Abdominal splenosis was an incidental finding at laparotomy for acute appendicitis in a 39-year-old man who had had splenectomy for traumatic rupture of the spleen nine years previously. Similar cases of abdominal and intrathoracic splenosis are reviewed.
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