Partial resection of the spleen in the treatment of benign and traumatic lesions

It has been thought that the spleen is an organ without important functions, until recently. That is, why splenectomy has been the procedure of choice in a treatment of splenic diseases. Even now, when we know the functional [figure: see text] importance of the spleen, splenectomy is performed frequ...

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Published inActa chirurgica Iugoslavica Vol. 49; no. 3; p. 67
Main Authors Radević, B, Dugalić, V, Jesić, R, Sagić, D, Perisić, V, Nenezić, D, Popov, P, Ilijevski, N, Gajin, P, Vucurević, G, Radak, Dj, Trebjesanin, Z, Babić, D, Matić, P
Format Journal Article
LanguageCroatian
Published Serbia 2002
Subjects
Humans
Postoperative Complications
Spleen - abnormalities
Spleen - injuries
Splenectomy - methods
Splenic Diseases - surgery
Splenic Neoplasms - surgery
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Summary:It has been thought that the spleen is an organ without important functions, until recently. That is, why splenectomy has been the procedure of choice in a treatment of splenic diseases. Even now, when we know the functional [figure: see text] importance of the spleen, splenectomy is performed frequently, regardless of its complications. The need of spleen functions salvage, favours partial resection of the spleen as competitive in a treatment of its traumatic and benign lesions. Improvement in diagnostic procedures, surgical techniques, transfusiology and postoperative treatment, will promote it as a treatment of choice. The authors of this study have experience with 17 partial resections of the spleen for traumatic, 11 for benign lesions of the spleen, and one ectopic spleen with hypersplenism, without mortality and with insignificant complications.
ISSN:0354-950X