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

• Published in: Acta 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
• Language: Croatian
• Published: Serbia 2002
• Subjects: Humans; Postoperative Complications; Spleen - abnormalities; Spleen - injuries; Splenectomy - methods; Splenic Diseases - surgery; Splenic Neoplasms - surgery
• ISSN: 0354-950X

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.