ACTA CHIRURGICA BELGICA, cilt.107, sa.2, ss.162-165, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
Purpose : Main causes of conversion to open surgery are uncontrolled bleeding from splenic hilum and capsular injury of spleen during laparoscopic splenectomy (LS). We present the use of LigaSure (TM) in laparoscopic splenectomy for hemostasis.