Complications of pancreatic surgery

HPB

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-108

  Ho, Choon Kiat ^a   Kleeff, Jörg ^a   Friess, Helmut ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abscess; Chronic pancreatitis; Complication; Fistula; Haemorrhage; Morbidity; Mortality; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic surgery; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

OCTREOTIDE; PLACEBO; VAPREOTIDE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREAS SURGERY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH FUNCTION DISORDER; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 20044384705     PISSN: 1365182X     EISSN: 14772574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13651820510028936     Document Type: Review

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