Effectiveness and safety of minilaparoscopy-guided spleen biopsy: a retrospective series of 57 cases.

Surgical Endoscopy
Tobias WernerUlrike Denzer

Abstract

Minilaparoscopy is an accepted method for liver biopsy. We report our experience with minilaparoscopy for splenic biopsy. We reviewed the records of all minilaparoscopy procedures performed from 1996 to 2004 at the University of Mainz Medical Center and from 2005 to mid-2011 at the University of Hamburg Medical Center to identify patients who underwent a minilaparoscopy-guided splenic biopsy. All procedures were performed using the previously described method (2.75-mm trocar, 2.3-mm Veress needle, 1.9-mm laparoscope) with the patient under conscious sedation (midazolam/meperidine/propofol). Splenic biopsies were performed using a second trocar with an 18-G Tru-Cut needle. Argon plasma coagulation (APC) and/or fibrin glue (FG) were used to control postbiopsy bleeding. Fifty-seven patients underwent minilaparoscopy-guided biopsy of the spleen (27 females, 30 males; median age = 41 years, range = 16-76). A specimen suitable for histopathologic evaluation was obtained in all patients. Grouped by preprocedure indication, a definitive diagnosis was obtained in 70% (7/10) of patients who had splenic mass lesions in prior imaging (3 B-NHL, 2 hemangioma, 1 tuberculosis, 1 sarcoidosis; p < 0.01) compared to 29% (10/34) in the group with ...Continue Reading

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Mar 13, 2013·Surgical Endoscopy·Yunqiang Cai, Xubao Liu
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