Publications by authors named "Priscila Luana Franco Costa Guimaraes"
Background: Hepatectomies have been increasingly recommended and performed in Brazil; they present great differences related to immediate complications.
Aim: Assessing the immediate postoperative complications in a series of 88 open liver resections.
Method: Prospective database of patients subjected to consecutive hepatectomies over nine years.
Objective: to report the group's experience with a series of patients undergoing pancreatic resection presenting null mortality rates.
Methods: we prospectively studied 50 consecutive patients undergoing pancreatic resections for peri-ampullary or pancreatic diseases. Main local complications were defined according to international criteria.
Background: Scientific publications focusing on the results of pancreatic resections in Brazil are scarce.
Aim: To present the surgical results of pancreatic resections.
Methods: Were analyzed prospectively 54 consecutive cases of patients undergoing consecutive pancreatectomy evaluating the occurrence of postoperative complications (pancreatic fistula, delayed gastric emptying and postoperative hemorrhage) based on the criteria of the International Study Group on Pancreatic Fistula Definition and International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery.