Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Robotic Spleen-Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy: The Warshaw and Kimura Techniques Evgenia Kotsifa1,2,3, Sebastiaan Festen4, Olivier R. Busch1,3, Marc G. Besselink1,3, Freek Daams2,3, HPB-Amsterdam, 1Department of Surgery, Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, 2Department of Surgery, Amsterdam UMC, location Vrije Universiteit, 3Cancer Center Amsterdam, 4Department of Surgery, OLVG Here, we present a step-by-step protocol of robotic spleen preserving distal pancreatectomy, with and without preserving the splenic vessels (i.e., the Kimura and Warshaw techniques, respectively).