... Chronic pancreatitis W Surgery W Quality of life W Complications Introduction Treatment of patients suffering from complications of chronic pancreatitis remains a major challenge [1]. The most distressing symptom for the patient is pain, which in many instances has already lead to a considerable...

...Wence Zhou; Yumin Li; Quanbao Zhang; Xun Li; Wenbo Meng; Lei Zhang; Hui Zhang; Kexiang Zhu; Xiaoliang Zhu Background and Aims: Postendoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis (PEP) is one of the most common and serious complications after endoscopic retrograde...

...Åke Andrén-Sandberg; John P. Neoptolemos Background and Aim of the Study: Complications of pancreatic resections are dangerous and costly. A literature review was therefore done to investigate the evidence for improving the results by regionalizing this demanding surgery. Results: Studies from four...

...Massimo Falconi; Erminia Caldiron; Carlo Zancanaro; Donatella Benati; Giorgio Talamini; Claudio Bassi; Paolo Pederzoli Background: Octreotide has been found to be effective in the prevention of postoperative complications of pancreatic surgery, but the benefit of preoperative octreotide...