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SUBMITTER: de Rooij T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5385082 | biostudies-other | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
de Rooij Thijs T van Hilst Jony J Vogel Jantien A JA van Santvoort Hjalmar C HC de Boer Marieke T MT Boerma Djamila D van den Boezem Peter B PB Bonsing Bert A BA Bosscha Koop K Coene Peter-Paul PP Daams Freek F van Dam Ronald M RM Dijkgraaf Marcel G MG van Eijck Casper H CH Festen Sebastiaan S Gerhards Michael F MF Groot Koerkamp Bas B Hagendoorn Jeroen J van der Harst Erwin E de Hingh Ignace H IH Dejong Cees H CH Kazemier Geert G Klaase Joost J de Kleine Ruben H RH van Laarhoven Cornelis J CJ Lips Daan J DJ Luyer Misha D MD Molenaar I Quintus IQ Nieuwenhuijs Vincent B VB Patijn Gijs A GA Roos Daphne D Scheepers Joris J JJ van der Schelling George P GP Steenvoorde Pascal P Swijnenburg Rutger-Jan RJ Wijsman Jan H JH Abu Hilal Moh'd M Busch Olivier R OR Besselink Marc G MG
Trials 20170408 1
<h4>Background</h4>Observational cohort studies have suggested that minimally invasive distal pancreatectomy (MIDP) is associated with better short-term outcomes compared with open distal pancreatectomy (ODP), such as less intraoperative blood loss, lower morbidity, shorter length of hospital stay, and reduced total costs. Confounding by indication has probably influenced these findings, given that case-matched studies failed to confirm the superiority of MIDP. This accentuates the need for mult ...[more]