Medial pancreatectomy

Abstract

Medial pancreatectomy has been gradually used in the treatment of benign tumors in neck and body of pancreas since less removal of the pancreas and the retainment of the duodenum,spleen and functional pancreas,it is less harmful to the endocrine and exocrine function of the patients.Seventeen patients received medial pancreatectomy for benign tumors in neck and body of the pancreas in the China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University from November 2005 to December 2010.Fifteen patients received the closure of broken ends of pancreatic head,pancreaticojejunostomy,and the other 2 received pancreaticojejunostomy.No perioperative death was found.All the patients were followed up for 2 to 45 months,and no death was recorded.No patient got new-onset diabetes and pancreatic pseudocyst,and their tumors were not relapsed.Now the retrospective analysis was carried out to this group of patients and to further regulate the surgical operation of the medial pancreatectomy. Key words: Pancreatic neoplasms; Medial pancreatectomy; Operation