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EXTERNAL PANCREATIC FISTULA: A RECENT ADVANCE IN MANAGEMENT
Author(s) -
KUNE GABRIEL A.,
THOMAS ROBERT J.,
RUSSELL JOHN
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1978.tb05231.x
Subject(s) - medicine , parenteral nutrition , fistula , pancreatic fistula , surgery , general surgery , closure (psychology) , intensive care medicine , pancreas , economics , market economy
The management of six consecutive recent cases of external pancreatic fistula Is reported in which the use of total parenteral nutrition resulted In rapid closure of the fistula. The flstulae closed from 11 to 28 days after the commencement of total parenteral nutrition, with an average of 19 days. Surgical intervention to close the fistula was not required In any of the cases.