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Emergency Pancreaticoduodenectomy with Delayed Reconstruction for Bleeding: A Life Saving Procedure
Jean-Jacques Tuech1, Patrick Pessaux, Nicolas Rege
1Department of Digestive Surgery, Angers University Hospital, 4 rue Larrey 49000, Angers France.
International Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
|May 20, 2003
Abstract:
Emergency pancreaticoduodenectomy with delayed reconstruction can be performed as a life saving procedurein case of massive bleeding uncontrolled with conventional hemostatic techniques. The authors reportherein the case of a 39-yr-old patient with an acute episode of chronic pancreatitis-induced massive bleedingsuccessfully treated by this unorthodox technique.The concept of damage control surgery with abbreviated laparotomy and planned reconstruction couldbe useful in selected cases outside the trauma setting.