[Splenectomy. Medical and surgical indications (observations on 95 cases)]

95 splenectomies carried out at the General Surgery Division of the Busto Arsizio Circolo Hospital between 1967 and 1977 are reported. After some brief historical notes, stress is laid on those forms of primary or secondary splenopathy which are receptive to surgical intervention. Splenectomies with surgical indication (traumatic ruptures during other operations for various conditions) are distinguished from those with medical indication: Cooley, Werlhoff, Hodgkin, hair cell leukaemia, Banti. The clinical, haematological and physiopathological aspects responsible for splenic change are considered for each individual disease on the basis of personal experience.