• Guwahati Doctor performs Rare Robotic Splenic Surgery on a 13-year-old

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    Guwahati Doctor performs Rare Robotic Splenic Surgery on a 13-year-old

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    color:#222222">Digital Desk: Dr. Subhash Khanna, a laparoscopic, bariatric and
    robotic surgeon successfully removed a splenicn cyst of a 13 year old boy
    through Robotic surgery on 16-06-22 managing to preserve the spleen in the
    process. Such large splenic cyst is quite rare in children.



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    color:#222222">Rihan has been experiencing unexplained abdomen pain and
    intermittent vomiting for the past three months. He first went to a renowned
    private hospital in Guwahati, where he was given a provisional diagnosis of
    splenic lymphangioma/ hydatid cyst (?) in May and treated with medication.
    However, because there was no noticeable improvement, his parents went to
    Swagat Super Speciality Surgical Institute & NH, Maligaon, Guwahati, where
    he was reevaluated and diagnosed with cholelithiasis, splenomegaly, and a
    massive splenic hilar cyst (15 x 11 cm) that was clinically palpable.



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    color:#222222">All of his blood tests were normal, except for serum bilirubin,
    which was slightly higher. His portal venous system Doppler testing was
    completely normal. The team of doctors advised the parents and the child since
    the spleen is an important immune organ that filters the blood, fights germs in
    the circulation, and removes old or damaged red blood cells. "Because the
    spleen is such a vascular organ, the odds of bleeding were extremely high,
    particularly because the cyst was placed in the hilar region," Dr. Subhash
    Khanna explained.



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    color:#222222">Robotic surgery seems to have a numerous advantages over open
    surgery, including less scars, a faster recovery, less pain, a shorter hospital
    stay, and fewer post-surgical complications. Dr. S. Khanna and his team, which included
    Dr. S. Choudhury, Dr. Biswajyoti Rabha, and anesthesiologist, Dr. Kanineeka
    Das, as well as Robotic scrub nurses Vidya, Alvanisha, and Lipika, successfully
    completed deroofing and excision of the large splenic cyst with aspiration of
    all his contents, as well as removal of the gallbladder Robotically.



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    color:#222222">Splenic surgery has recently grown more conservative, with the
    goal of preserving as much of the spleen as possible. Many similar splenic tear
    cases have recently been treated with vascular embolization at Swagat SSSI
    & NH. However, this is the first time a big splenic cyst has been treated
    robotically while the spleen is preserved in a child in the entire North East
    region.



    color:#222222">This is the first such splenic large cyst excised robotically in
    a 13-year-old boy using the new robot "Versius."



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