Unlabelled: The incidence of periampullary neoplasms substantially increases with age. If we take into account that this incidence is higher in the elder patient and that life expectancy is nowadays longer, questioning surgical approach in this group of patients turns out to be controversial.
Objective: [corrected] Asses if in the elder patients the duodenopancreatectomy has a higher mortality and complications.
Rev Gastroenterol Peru
November 2010
Female of 64 years old, who two years ago was hospitalized in another institution for treatment of an abscess in the right liver lobe. During that hospitalization, it was found a duodenal tumor by tomography; however, no further studies or follow up on this finding was done. Prior to actual hospitalization, she was seen in a private clinic and treated with antibiotics for a suggestive"organized abscess" in the pancreatic head diagnosed by tomography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The purpose of this study is to define the factors that condition complications and mortality in a group of 119 patients with periampullary neoplasms operated on at a general hospital.
Materials And Method: Between October 2002 and December 2006, 119 patients who were diagnosed with periampullary neoplasms and underwent a pancreatoduodenectomy at Rebagliati Hospital were evaluated.
Results: Age and sex were not conditioning factors of complications.
Objectives: The present study was designed to determine whether the surgeon factor has an independent effect on morbidity and mortality rates after duodenopancreatectomy.
Material And Method: Between October 2002 and December 2006, we performed a study of 119 patients who underwent duodenopancreatectomy. The surgeons were divided into 3 groups according to the number of interventions they performed each year: a low volume group (three Whipple procedures per year), a medium volume group (four to 10 Whipple procedures per year) and a high volume group (> 10 Whipple procedures per year).
Rev Gastroenterol Peru
December 2007
Introduction: The cystic tumors of the pancreas represent an uncommon entity and the less frequent type among them is the solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas. Its main difference lies in the fact that this type of tumor is more frequent in young patients. Solid pseudopapillary tumors are generally tumors of large size and the majority of them have a benign behavior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The cystic tumor of the pancreas is a relatively uncommon entity. There are different types of pancreatic cystic tumors and they all exhibit different degrees of malignancy. These tumors represent 1% of all primary pancreatic tumors and only 15% of the cystic lesions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Vater's ampulla neoplasias are not very frequent lesions. The ampullectomy consists on the total resection of the Vater's ampulla and part of the duodenal wall with the later reconstruction and anastomosis of the common bile duct and the Wirsung's duct to the duodenum. The local resection of the ampulla is an alternative to the duodenopancreatectomy that has to be taken into account, especially in benign lesions as in the case of adenomas of the Vater's ampulla.
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