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01-12-2020 | Pancreaticojejunostomy | Pancreatic Tumors
Letter to Editor: Central Pancreatectomy Versus Distal Pancreatectomy and Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Benign and Low-Grade Malignant Neoplasms: A Retrospective and Propensity Score-Matched Study with Long-Term Functional Outcomes and Pancreas Volumetry
Authors:
He Cai, MD, Bing Peng, MD, PHD, FACS
Published in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Special Issue 3/2020
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Excerpt
It was with great interest that we read the study by Lee et al.
1 This was a very interesting retrospective study which compared short-term and long-term outcomes of central pancreatectomy (CP) with distal pancreatectomy (DP) and pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). Unlike most other studies, the authors demonstrated that patients in the CP group had lower exocrine function than those in the DP group, concluding that CP should be limited. However, we would like to raise some comments. …