Surgical treatment of pancreatic fistula

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 262-274

  Alexakis, N ^a   Sutton, R ^a   Neoptolemos, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endoscopic treatment; Fistula; Pancreatitis, chronic, acute

Indexed keywords

OCTREOTIDE; PLACEBO; SOMATOSTATIN 14; VAPREOTIDE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS SURGERY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ASCITES; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC FISTULA; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 5644278777     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080199     Document Type: Review

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