Open AccessThe difficulties encountered in conversion from classic pancreaticoduodenectomy to total laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy
Author(s) -
Oğuzhan Karatepe,
Muharrem Battal,
Ahmet Yılmaz,
Gökmen Öztürk
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of minimal access surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0972-9941
pISSN - 1998-3921
DOI - 10.4103/0972-9941.181385
Subject(s) - medicine , pancreaticoduodenectomy , total pancreatectomy , dissection (medical) , surgery , general surgery , resection , pancreatectomy
Recently, total laparoscopic pancreatectomy has been performed at many centres as an alternative to open surgery. In this study, we aimed to present the difficulties that we have encountered in converting from classic open pancreaticoduodenectomy to total laparoscopic pancreatectomy.
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