INTRODUCTION The most common symptoms of the pancreatic body and tail carcinoma are epigastric pain, asthenia and back pain. However, these symptoms are nonspecific, which as a consequence leads to late diagnosis as w...
Background Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) has become the therapeutic option of choice for end-stage liver disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the changes of splenic morphology, signal-to-noise ...
Background Laparoscopic splenectomy (LS) for massive splenomegaly is more technically challenging than for a normal-sized spleen. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of operative experience on peri...
Background Laparoscopic splenectomy (LS) has been considered as the standard approach to remove a normal-sized spleen, but it is facing technical challenges when applied to splenomegaly. Hand-assisted laparoscopic t...