Accessory spleen – a report of anatomical cases

In the last years, there is an increase in the number of complex surgical procedures on the spleen. This process couldn’t have gone unnoticed and eventually caused a growth of interest toward this abdominal cavity organ. Acessory spleen represents one of the crucial anatomical variations of the spleen and has major clinical significance. During the anatomical dissection of 35 organ complexes, we encountered 3 cases of accessory spleen, which represents 8.6% of the total number of cases. In this article, we present the three accessory spleen cases with a review of their clinical significance.