title: Selective hemisplenectomy for Hodgkin's disease.
abstract: Schellong's recommendation to do a selective splenectomy in Hodgkin's disease supported by our retrospective histological findings in biopsies of lymph nodes and spleens of 25 patients. In addition, we recommend a hemisplenectomy instead of a splenectomy in cases of involvement of the lymph nodes at the pancreatic tail and at the hilus of the spleen. Hemisplenectomy, which is not a more difficult or more time-consuming operation, provides more security in judging an invasion of the spleen.
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D002648:Child; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013154:Spleen / Q000473:pathology; D013156:Splenectomy / Q000379:methods*