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[Left pancreatic resection in chronic pancreatitis--with or without splenectomy?]
W Schlosser1, B Rück, M H Schoenberg
1Chirurgie I, Universitätsklinik Ulm.
Langenbecks Archiv Fur Chirurgie. Supplement. Kongressband. Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Chirurgie. Kongress
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
We recommend preserving the spleen in distal pancreatic resection for chronic pancreatitis, because it has no higher risk for complications, such as bleeding, and has the same hospital mortality compared with the distal pancreatic resection with splenectomy.