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- Title
Single-incision laparoscopic splenectomy with innovative gastric traction suture.
- Authors
Srikanth, G; Wasim, M D; Sajjad, A; Shetty, Neel
- Abstract
Laparoscopic splenectomy is now the gold standard for patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) undergoing splenectomy. There are a few reports in literature on single-incision laparoscopic (SIL) splenectomy. Herein, we describe a patient undergoing SIL splenectomy for ITP without the use of a disposable port device. We report a 20-year-old female patient with steroid-refractory ITP having a platelet count of 14,000/cmm who underwent a SIL splenectomy. Dissection was facilitated by the use of a single articulating grasper and a gastric traction suture and splenic vessels were secured at the hilum with an endo-GIA stapler. She made an uneventful postoperative recovery and was discharged on the second postoperative day. She is doing well with no visible scar at 8-month follow-up.
- Publication
Journal of minimal access surgery, 2011, Vol 7, Issue 1, p68
- ISSN
1998-3921
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4103/0972-9941.72386