Eleven cases of postoperative hepatic infarction following pancreato-biliary surgery.

Background: Postoperative hepatic infarction is rare; therefore, clinical characteristics and outcomes of postoperative hepatic infarction after pancreatobiliary surgery have not been obvious.

Methods: Eleven patients encountered hepatic infarction after pancreato-biliary surgery. Management, clinical course, and outcome of these 11 patients were retrospectively analyzed.

Repeated pancreatectomy after pancreatoduodenectomy.

Background: When pancreatic duct dilatation is found in the patient having undergone pancreatoduodenectomy (PD), observation is chosen in most cases. Similarly, recurrent tumor in the remnant pancreas of invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) of the pancreas is seldom indicated for resection. We have aggressively performed repeated pancreatectomy for these cases and obtained good results.