Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy is the removal of the left part of the pancreas (an organ in the upper abdomen that is involved in digestion and produces insulin). The procedure is carried out ...
Solid pseudopapillary tumour, first described by Frantz in 1959, is a rare primary neoplasm of the pancreas with a low malignant potential which tends to occur primarily in young women [1, 2]. In most ...
Prognostic significance of chromogranin A in small pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not include a ...
2019 OCT 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Research findings on Surgery - Pancreatectomy are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting from ...
If staging reveals that the tumor can be removed by local resection, surgery is the preferred treatment option for otherwise healthy patients without metastases. Tumors of the pancreatic head and the ...
In the last two decades, minimally invasive surgery has been implemented in multiple surgical subspecialities. Pancreatic surgery remained on the sidelines of this process for a long time.
Pancreatic surgery is challenging for both surgeon and patient. With the advent of minimally invasive surgical techniques, patient morbidity could be reduced. However, these techniques must conform to ...
The technique of stump closure after DP has been widely debated. Different approaches have been tested in various studies, and in a comparative analysis, no significant advantage for any specific ...