Surgical management of chronic pancreatitis

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases International

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-133

  Gourgiotis, Stavros ^a,d   Germanos, Stylianos ^b   Ridolfini, Marco Pericoli ^c  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIGHTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chronic pancreatitis; Malignancy; Pain; Pancreatic function; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CALCITONIN; METHIONINE; PANCREAS ENZYME; SELENIUM; SUBSTANCE P;

ALCOHOLISM; ANALGESIA; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACTABLE PAIN; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; JAUNDICE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MEDLINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS DUCT STENOSIS; PANCREAS EXOCRINE INSUFFICIENCY; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PANCREATICOJEJUNOSTOMY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PEPTIC ULCER; POSTGASTRECTOMY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSEUDOCYST; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPLENECTOMY; STEATORRHEA; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34047258350     PISSN: 14993872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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