title: The Puestow procedure: how I do it.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Puestow procedure, also called lateral pancreaticojejunostomy, has been the mainstay of surgical therapy for dilated duct chronic pancreatitis for decades.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Principles that Puestow and Gillesby described in 1958 are pertinent to the modern conduct of this operation that is described with current practice guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. adamsdav@musc.edu
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Adams
mesh_terms: D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010183:Pancreatic Ducts / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D010193:Pancreaticojejunostomy / Q000379:methods*; D050500:Pancreatitis, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*