Laparoscopic Splenectomy (LS)

Laparoscopic splenic surgery began in 1991, when Delaitre et al. [1] finished the world’s first laparoscopic splenectomy (LS). Initially, LS was mainly used in patients with normal spleen or mild splenomegaly, and it has been currently applied to a variety of diseases leading to splenomegaly [2] and splenic benign and malignant tumors [3, 4]. Compared with open splenectomy (OS), LS has merits of less trauma and pain, with proved effect [5]. It has currently become the standard operation for the treatment of most splenic-related blood diseases [6].