Organ preservation and damage control in surgical treatment of pancreatic head benign and low malignant lesions
WANG Chun-you
Abstract：The pathological types of space occupying lesions of pancreatic head are very complicated that including high malignant tumor, low malignant tumor, benign tumor and inflammatory mass. The main surgical procedure for space occupying lesions of pancreatic head is Whipple procedure. However, whether the Whipple procedure is proper for low malignant and benign lesions of pancreatic head is still a controversial issue. In this paper, we introduce the organ-preserving procedures, e.g. pancreatic enucleation, duodenum-preserving pancreatic head resection and pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy, for low malignant and benign lesions of pancreatic head, and promote the principles of damage control and organ preservation, which will be beneficial to the decrease of postoperative mortality and morbidity, sustainment of patients, physical function, improvement of quality of life, control of hospital charge and decrease of medical tangle.
Keywords：pancreatic head benign lesionduodenum-preserving pancreatic head resectionpancreatic enucleationpylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomydamage control
Publication Date：2009-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 622-624 )