Wang WD, Lin J, Wu ZQ, Liu QB, Ma J, Chen XW. Partial splenectomy using a laparoscopic bipolar radiofrequency device: A case report. World J Gastroenterol 2015; 21(11): 3420-3424 [PMID: 25805954 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i11.3420]
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Xiao-Wu Chen, MD, PhD, Second Department of General Surgery, the First People’s Hospital of Shun De, No. 1 Penglai Road, Shunde 528300, Guangdong Province, China. sdchenxiaowu1968@163.com
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Case Report
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Wei-Dong Wang, Jie Lin, Zhi-Qiang Wu, Qing-Bo Liu, Jing Ma, Xiao-Wu Chen, Second Department of General Surgery, the First People’s Hospital of Shunde, Shunde 528300, Guangdong Province, China
Author contributions: Wang WD, Lin J, Wu ZQ, Liu QB and Chen XW participated in the study design and performance; Ma J collected the clinical data.
Supported by grants from First People’s Hospital of Shunde, Guangdong Province, China.
Ethics approval: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of The First People’s Hospital of Shunde.
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Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Xiao-Wu Chen, MD, PhD, Second Department of General Surgery, the First People’s Hospital of Shun De, No. 1 Penglai Road, Shunde 528300, Guangdong Province, China. sdchenxiaowu1968@163.com
Received: September 25, 2014 Peer-review started: September 28, 2014 First decision: October 29, 2014 Revised: November 25, 2014 Accepted: December 16, 2014 Article in press: December 16, 2014 Published online: March 21, 2015 Processing time: 175 Days and 4.4 Hours
Abstract
We report a 51-year-old female patient with a solitary lymphangioma located in the upper splenic pole which was managed successfully with laparoscopic partial splenectomy. Surgery lasted 170 min and did not require blood transfusions. The patient recovered well post-operatively and was asymptomatic at the 3-mo follow-up. She had a normal platelet count and no recurrence on ultrasonography or computed tomography. Laparoscopic partial splenectomy is a safe, minimally invasive technique for the treatment of solitary splenic lymphangiomas in the splenic pole. We performed the procedure using the HabibTM 4X device. This laparoscopic bipolar radiofrequency device ensured a “bloodless” splenic parenchymal resection.
Core tip: We report the first case of a solitary splenic lymphangioma managed successfully by laparoscopic partial splenectomy using HabibTM 4X, a laparoscopic bipolar radiofrequency device, which allowed for a “bloodless” splenic parenchymal resection.
