Table 1.

Patient demographics

Categories		Number of cases	Proportion%
Sex	Male	22	56.4
	Female	17	43.6
Underlying liver diseases	Hepatitis B cirrhosis	23	59.0
	Hepatitis C cirrhosis	3	7.7
	Autoimmune liver disease	5	12.8
	Alcoholic cirrhosis	4	10.3
	Idiopathic portal hypertension	2	5.1
	Budd-Chiari syndrome	1	2.6
	Spherocytosis	1	2.6
Surgical methods	Simple splenectomy	8	20.5
	Splenectomy with devascularization	31	79.5