...Kosei Takagi; Tomokazu Fuji; Kazuya Yasui; Motohiko Yamada; Takeyoshi Nishiyama; Yasuo Nagai; Noriyuki Kanehira; Toshiyoshi Fujiwara Introduction: Total pancreatectomy (TP) is a technically demanding procedure for patients with multifocal pancreatic diseases. Although the benefits of the superior...

...Shuji Suzuki; Hideki Kajiyama; Akira Takemura; Jiro Shimazaki; Kiyotaka Nishida; Mitsugi Shimoda Background: Total pancreatectomy (TP) is not more beneficial than less aggressive resection techniques for the treatment of pancreatic neoplasms and is associated with high morbidity and mortality...

...Åke Andrén-Sandberg; Christoph Ansorge; Thakur Deen Yadav An elective total pancreatectomy (TP) was first performed by Eugene Rockey of Portland, Oregon, in 1942. In the 1960s and 1970s, TP was the routine resection for pancreatic cancer in many centers because of fear of a leaking...

... additional lesions over time argues in favor of a field defect and complicates surgical management decisions. Surgery usually consists of partial pancreatic resection, which leaves behind a pancreatic remnant at risk for recurrent disease and progression to cancer. As an alternative, total pancreatectomy (TP...

... its value for total pancreatectomy are sparse. Methods: A prospective analysis of 22 total pancreatectomies performed in a consecutive series of 436 pancreatic resections from 1.11.93 to 1.5.99. Results: 11 patients underwent total pancreatectomy with preservation of the pylorus. Histopathological...