Frandics Chan
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Institutional experience with laparoscopic partial splenectomy for hereditary spherocytosis.
J Pediatr Surg. 2010; (8): 1682-6
Moderate to severe hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is treated with splenectomy. However, total splenectomy leads to decreased immunologic function with the risk of overwhelming postsplenectomy sepsis. Splenic preservation is postulated as a method to avoid this potentially fatal complication. Although mainly performed through laparotomy, we report our experience with a laparoscopic approach to partial splenectomy for HS.
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