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| Year : 2011 | Volume
: 7
| Issue : 1 | Page : 68-70 |
Single-incision laparoscopic splenectomy with innovative gastric traction suture
G Srikanth, MD Wasim, A Sajjad, Neel Shetty
Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Manipal Institute of Liver and Digestive Diseases, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, India
Correspondence Address:
G Srikanth
Manipal Institute of Liver and Digestive Diseases, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka - 560 017
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0972-9941.72386
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.
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