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 ...

Minimally invasive procedure to remove part of pancreas offers a shorter hospital stay and faster recovery. Eugene Allen, a retired police officer and teacher from Sicklerville, N.J., had a decision ...

Compared with insertion of a passive abdominal drain after distal pancreatectomy, which has been standard practice, not inserting a drain did not increase rates of major morbidity and reduced the ...

Preserving splenic vessels during laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy (SPDP-LA) is feasible and avoids unnecessary splenectomy. To present our outcomes for this unique technique. Between January 1998 ...

Research led by Amsterdam UMC across ten Dutch hospitals and two Italian hospitals has found that not placing a drain during surgery improves outcomes in patients undergoing a left-sided pancreatic ...

Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 20: Kauvery Hospital Vadapalani, a leading healthcare institution renowned for its advanced surgical techniques, has performed a rare and complex ...

Current evidence on the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy appears adequate to support the use of this procedure provided that normal arrangements are in place for consent, ...

In a rare surgery, a robotic spleen preserving distal pancreatectomy was performed on a 39-year-old male patient, suffering from dropping sugar levels, by doctors at Krishna Institute of Medical ...

Fat assimilation was determined by 219 daily balance studies in seven patients who had had massive distal pancreatectomy for pancreatitis with preservation of the integrity of the gut lumen.

CHICAGO -- A minimally invasive approach for operable pancreatic cancer proved safe and just as effective in terms of radical resection rates as open surgery, findings from the international DIPLOMA ...