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Primarily, partial splenectomy was introduced as an alternative to total splenectomy to avoid post-splenectomy sepsis in children <5 years of age [1, 2].
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Becmeur, F., Klipfel, C. (2019). Laparoscopic Partial Splenectomy. In: Esposito, C., Becmeur, F., Steyaert, H., Szavay, P. (eds) ESPES Manual of Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00964-9_40
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