Is it time to abandon routine operative drain use? A single institution assessment of 709 consecutive pancreaticoduodenectomies

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 635-642

  Mehta, Vishes V ^a   Fisher, Sarah B ^a   Maithel, Shishir K ^a   Sarmiento, Juan M ^a   Staley, Charles A ^a   Kooby, David A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRAIN; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PANCREATIC FISTULA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84875284483     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.12.040     Document Type: Article

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