Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
Open Access

Review Article

Spleen-Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy that also Preserves Splenic Vessels

The First Department of Surgery, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Japan

*Corresponding Author:

Wataru Kimura
Vice President, Professor and Chairman
The First Department of Surgery
Yamagata University, 2-2-2 Iida-Nishi Yamagata City
Yamagata, 990-9585, Japan
Tel: +8123-628-5334
E-mail: wkimura@med.id.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Received date: May 12, 2014; Accepted date: June 20, 2014; Published date: June 26, 2014

Citation: Kimura W (2014) Spleen-Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy that also Preserves Splenic Vessels. J Gastroint Dig Syst 4:191 doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000191

Copyright: © 2014 Kimura W, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy is a common resection of the pancreas. Compared to distal pancreatectomy and splenrctomy Spleen Preserving procedure a limited resection. Recent advances in endoscopic surgery have resulted in more facilities offering laparoscopies SPDP.

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