Assam: Doctors performs Rare Robotic Splenic surgery on 13-year-old boy
This is the first such surgery in the North-eastern region, the hospital where the procedure was conducted.;
Guwahati: In a rare surgery, doctors of a private hospital in Assam claimed to have successfully performed a robotic surgery to remove a large splenic cyst while preserving the spleen of a 13-year-old boy.
This is the first such surgery in the North-eastern region, the hospital where the procedure was conducted said in a statement.
Such a large splenic cyst is quite rare in children, it said.
Dr Subhash Khanna, a laparoscopic, bariatric and robotic surgeon, led a team that successfully removed the splenic cyst.
"As the spleen is a highly vascular organ, chances of bleeding were very high," said Khanna.
The patient was diagnosed to have cholelithiasis (gallstone disease) with splenomegaly (enlarged spleen) with a large splenic hilar cyst (15 cm x 11 cm) which was clinically palpable.
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