Consecutive laparoscopic gallbladder and spleen resections in cirrhotic patients

Table 5 Reports in the literature of laparoscopic cholecystectomy plus laparoscopic splenectomy

Ref.	Year	n	Main diagnosis	Surgical sequence	Conversion rate	Morbidity
Trías et al[26]	1994	1	Hereditary spherocytosis	LC → LS	NR	NR
Patton et al[15]	1997	1	Hereditary spherocytosis	LC → LS	NR	Atelectasis
Caprotti et al[31]	1999	7	Hereditary spherocytosis	LC → LS	NR	NR
Brink et al[32]	2003	1	Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia	LC → LS	NR	PSVT
Rossi et al[34]	2007	1	Congenital haemolytic anaemia	NR	NR	PSVT
Choi et al[33]	2007	2	Hereditary spherocytosis	LC → LS	NR	NR
Sasaki et al[14]	2010	9	Hereditary spherocytosis (n = 4)	LS → LC	NR	PSVT
			Splenic artery aneurysm (n = 2)
			Hypersplenism with liver cirrhosis (n = 2)
			Evans syndrome (n = 1)
Nobili et al[16]	2011	30	Hereditary spherocytosis (n = 22)	LC → LS	1 (3.3%)	Hemoperitoneum
			Thalassemia (n = 4)
			Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (n = 3)
			Sickle cell disease (n = 1)

PSVT: Portal or splenic vein thrombosis; NR: Not reported: LC: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; LS: Laparoscopic splenectomy.