Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky was operating on William Bryan at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in August when he mistakenly removed William’s liver instead of his spleen which lead to the ...

Laparoscopic splenectomy has become the gold standard intervention for the removal of the spleen, especially for benign causes. However, the organ's high anatomic location, fragility and generous ...

—Before making a decision about splenectomy, get a thorough hematopathology review of available diagnostic material—and advice from a lymphoma specialist. Reviewed by Chaitra Ujjani, MD, Associate ...

It's the stuff of nightmares: Someone goes in for an operation and a fatal mistake is made. It wasn't the first time a similar error was made by the surgeon ...

Patient A, a 68-year-old male with stage IV mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and splenic involvement, underwent an autologous peripheral blood HSCT following myeloablative total body radiation (1200 cGy ...

An Alabama widow is claiming her 70-year-old husband’s death was caused by a surgery during which the doctor allegedly removed the wrong organ, according to PEOPLE. The widow, Beverly Bryan, is ...

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. (WKRC) - The lawsuit accuses the surgeon of mistakenly removing a liver instead of a spleen, resulting in the death of a patient. Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in ...

THIS communication presents the results of splenectomy performed in patients with various blood dyscrasias who have been followed in the Blood Clinic of the New England Medical Center during the past ...

A research team from Turkey has investigated the proficiency level reached in laparoscopic splenectomy using the learning curve method. They found that, unlike the widely accepted "L" shape, the ...