Pancreatico-gastric fistula complicating an intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm
A Maubert1, G Vanbiervliet2, E I Benizri1
1Service de chirurgie générale et cancérologie digestive, hôpital de l'Archet 2, centre hospitalier universitaire de Nice, 151, route de Saint-Antoine de Ginestière, B.P. 3079, 06200 Nice cedex 3, France.
Journal of Visceral Surgery
|April 2, 2017
Abstract:
Fistula as a complication of pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) is rare and may involve different adjacent organs, sometimes, several organs at the same time. Our patient had a pancreatico-gastric fistula, discovered at work-up for IPMN, which required extensive surgery.
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