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Overview and Prospects of Laparoscopic Splenectomy

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Since it was first reported in 1991, laparoscopic splenectomy (LS) has been extensively performed in clinical practices worldwide. Over the past three decades, it has addressed more and more indications, covering almost all diseases in need of splenectomy by virtue of ever-improving surgical skills. Therefore, LS has been widely accepted as the “standard procedure” of splenectomy [1, 2].

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Chen, X., Qiu, S., Peng, B. (2021). Overview and Prospects of Laparoscopic Splenectomy. In: Peng, B. (eds) Laparoscopic Surgery of the Spleen. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1216-9_1

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