title: Post-traumatic splenic cysts treated with laparoscopy: two case reports.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Today, laparoscopy tends to become a useful alternative to open procedure for the surgical treatment of spleen disorders, offering at the same time a conservative approach for the management of selected spleen lesions such as posttraumatic cysts.
  
  
  METHODS
  This article describes two cases of posttraumatic splenic cysts, one of which was treated with laparoscopic total splenectomy and the second with laparoscopic cystectomy. The procedure was carried out successfully with no complications in both cases, and the patients were discharged a few days after the operation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Laparoscopy with preservation of functional splenic parenchyma, when feasible, should be the procedure of choice in cases of posttraumatic splenic cysts, as it provides safe and definite treatment with all of the other advantages of minimally invasive surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, First Avenue at 16th Street, New York, USA. davgerin@chpnet.org
authors.forename: Dimitrios V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Avgerinos
authors.forename: Christos E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Kyriakopoulos
authors.forename: Sophia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Konstantinopoulou
authors.forename: Evgenia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gourgari
authors.forename: Vasileios
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lioutas