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SUBMITTER: Senthilnathan P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4412863 | biostudies-other | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Senthilnathan Palanisamy P Chinnusamy Palanivelu P Ramanujam Alwar A Sivakumar Srivatsan Gurumurthy SG Natesan Anand Vijai AV Chandramaliteeswaran C C Palanivelu Praveen Raj PR Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi P Subbiah Rajapandian R
Indian journal of surgical oncology 20150104 1
Laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (LPD) remained a formidable challenge owing to retroperitoneal location, difficult dissection near great vessels and critical intracorporeal anastomoses. Recent reviews of literature have established the feasibility and comparable short term outcomes of laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (LPD) with that of open pancreaticoduodenectomy (OPD). This study was undertaken to compare the pathological radicality of LPD with OPD. A prospective database of all patie ...[more]