Fady Youssef Garas Yanni <br/><br/>
Laparoscopic splencetomy in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura /  
 دور منظار البطن الجراحى فى استئصال الطحال فى حالات النقص المناعى للصفائح الدموية 
Fady Youssef Garas Yanni ; Supervised Safwat Abdelkader Mahmoud Salem , Mervat Mohammed Wagih Mattar , Hisham Abueisha 
 - Cairo :   Fady Youssef Garas Yanni ,   [2013] 
 - 99 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of General Surgery 
<br/><br/> Spleen formerly known as the organ of mystery plays an important role in the pathogenesis and destruction of platelets in ITP . Most of the ITP patients can be controlled by medical treatment . If medical treatment fails. splenectomy is considered the second line of treatment . Since 1991, Laparoscopic splencetomy (LS) has gained acceptance in the treatment of hematologic disorders, including idiopathc/immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Idiopathic  Laparoscopic splencetomy  Thrombocytopenic purpura