A distal pancreatectomy is the removal of the end of the pancreas while leaving the pancreatic head attached. It is performed to treat pancreatic cancer localized in the end of the pancreas, but may ...

The surgical management of IPMNs is complicated by the fact that the lesion itself is small and preoperative imaging studies show a dilated pancreatic duct but not necessarily the mass. Mucus can ...

Recently, Cattell has operated on a patient with typical chronic pancreatitis and pancreatolithiasis that developed in the distal remnant of the pancreas seven years after the head of the pancreas ...

Pune: A 72-year-old woman from Yemen, weighing 140kg, underwent a robotic distal pancreatosplenectomy (RDP) procedure ...

In the second patient, the pancreatic remnant was closed by a pancreatojejunostomy (end-to-side). Two patients (1.6%) died during the hospital stay, but none of them died due to a POPF.

has performed a rare and complex robotic-assisted spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy on a 75-year-old male patient. The patient, who had a history of heart issues and previous prostate cancer ...

safe closure of the pancreatic remnant is therefore an important issue for laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy. [10] In addition, our analysis confirms that patients with a clinically relevant ...