BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Pancreatic stents placed by ERCP are common in the treatment of benign and malignant pancreatic and biliary disease. Proximal migration of the stent into the duct occurs in ...
We have moved interventional procedures guidance 204 to become HealthTech guidance 130. This is to better reflect the NICE HealthTech programme which combines the former NICE Diagnostics Assessment ...
Laparoscopic surgery is a type of surgery that uses small incisions and a camera to help doctors see inside your body. The camera is called a laparoscope. It is inserted through a small incision in ...
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 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A noninferiority trial showed similar rates of radical resection with both approaches. OS and DFS curves of the ...
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 ...