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Department of Digestive and Thoracic Surgery, Robert Ballanger Hospital, Aulnay Sous Bois, France. elias.habib@wanadoo.fr
Splenic rupture is a well-known complication of open surgery but is much less common at laparoscopic surgery.
A 45-year-old man underwent laparoscopy for perforated duodenal ulcer. The abdominal cavity was washed out and the ulcer was sutured. He was discharged on the fifth postoperative day but was readmitted because of a sharp pain in the left upper quadrant radiating to the left shoulder. He then developed haemorrhagic shock. Urgent laparotomy revealed a diffuse haemoperitoneum consequent upon a posterior subcapsular haematoma of the spleen.
There are four previous case reports of splenic rupture at laparoscopy. In the present case, a posterior subcapsular haematoma arose during lavage of the left subdiaphragmatic area. Such a haematoma is undetectable during laparoscopy.
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