The management of a remnant pancreatic stump for preventing the development of postoperative pancreatic fistulas after distal pancreatectomy: Current evidence and our strategy

Surgery Today

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 595-602

  Makino, Isamu ^a   Kitagawa, Hirohisa ^a   Nakagawara, Hisatoshi ^a   Tajima, Hidehiro ^a   Ninomiya, Itasu ^a   Fushida, Sachio ^a   Fujimura, Takashi ^a   Ohta, Tetsuo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distal pancreatectomy; Postoperative pancreatic fistula

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE;

ANASTOMOSIS; CASE STUDY; CAUTERIZATION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; HAND SEWN CLOSURE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS DUCT LIGATION; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATIC STENTING; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REMNANT PANCREATIC STUMP; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEROMUSCULAR PATCH; STAPLER CLOSURE; STENT; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PANCREAS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC FISTULA; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84878015983     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-012-0370-y     Document Type: Review

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