Successful emergency pancreatoduodenectomy in a non-trauma patient.
In the past decades considerable improvements in diagnostic imaging procedures, surgical technique and perioperative intensive care treatment have lead to a significant decrease in perioperative mortality and morbidity after pancreatic resection. This lead to an expansion of the indications for pancreatoduodenectomy. Little data exist in the literature on emergency pancreatoduodenectomy in non-trauma patients. We present a 43-year-old woman with extensive bleeding from papilla of Vater after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with papillosphincterotomy. During the surgical exploration a tumor mass on the head of the pancreas was observed and a pancreatoduodenectomy was performed. On day 7 after the operation pancreatic leakage was observed and conservative therapy was administrated. Two weeks later the patient was released from the hospital in good health. Emergency pancreatoduodenectomy may be considered in institutions with extensive experience in these procedures, where cooperation of the invasive gastroenterologists and the abdominal surgeons, long experience of the surgeon and intensive reanimation care are present.
Vladov
Nikola Nikolov
NN
Clinic of Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Military Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria. vladovkoko@abv.bg
Takorov
Ivelin Rumenov
IR
Mutafchiiski
Ventsislav Metodiev
VM
Kjossev
Kirien Tzvetanov
KT
Kazarov
Krum
K
Mladenov
Nikolai
N
Petrov
Nikolai
N
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D004386:Duodenum / Q000601:surgery; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D041781:Jaundice, Obstructive / Q000601:surgery*; D010179:Pancreas / Q000601:surgery; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016577:Pancreaticoduodenectomy / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome