Is spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy with excision of the splenic artery and vein feasible?

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 572-

  Miura, Fumihiko ^a   Sano, Keiji ^a   Amano, Hodaka ^a   Toyota, Naoyuki ^a   Wada, Keita ^a   Kadowaki, Susumu ^a   Shibuya, Makoto ^a   Maeno, Sawako ^a   Takada, Tadahiro ^a   Hayano, Koichi ^b   Matsubara, Hisahiro ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTERY SURGERY; EXCISION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LETTER; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN PRESERVING DISTAL PANCREATECTOMY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN; STOMACH VARICES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN SURGERY;

COHORT STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLEEN; SPLENIC ARTERY; SPLENIC VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052277763     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.04.005     Document Type: Letter

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