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Pancreatoduodenectomía de urgencia: Whipple o no Whipple, esa es la cuestión
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Bernal, Felipe Sánchez, Sebastián Pedraza, M. Cabrera, Luis Felipe |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Introduction: Pancreaticoduodenectomy is a procedure first described by Codivilla in 1898 for the management of pancreatic cancer. With subsequent contributions the technique has been perfected allowing its application in other contexts leading to the survival of many patients. However, the low demand for the procedure and the difficulties in doing so makes the decision of whether to take or not to take the patient to a Whipple surgery a very complex matter. Case report: We present the case of a patient who arrived at the emergency room with penetrating abdominal trauma with pancreaticoduodenal injury in whom the Whipple procedure was performed urgently by the general surgery service at a third level of care institution in Bogotá, Colombia, with excellent results. |
| Starting Page | 111 |
| Ending Page | 118 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.30944/20117582.53 |
| Volume Number | 33 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/rcci/v33n1/2011-7582-rcci-33-01-00111.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.30944/20117582.53 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
