Incidence and Location of Accessory Spleens

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To the Editor: The paper by Pearson et al. on "The Born-Again Spleen" (June 22, 1978 issue)¹ and subsequent letters in the Journal ² stimulated us to make a prospective study of the incidence and location of accessory splenic tissue. Blaustein and Diggs state that at autopsy the incidence of this tissue ranged from 20 to 30 per cent of all cases.³ Except for a study in children among whom the incidence was 16 per cent,⁴ precise figures, especially for adults, are apparently unavailable. We hoped that a careful search of 250 consecutive autopsies would provide information to permit removal of . . .