Tingting Qin, Hang Zhang, Shutao Pan, Jun Liu, Dewei Li, Rufu Chen, Xiaobing Huang, Yahui Liu, Jianhua Liu, Wei Cheng, Xuemin Chen, Wenxing Zhao, Jingdong Li, Zhijian Tan, Heguang Huang, Deyu Li, Feng Zhu, Guangsheng Yu, Baoyong Zhou, Shangyou Zheng, Yichen Tang, Jianji Ke, Xueqing Liu, Botao Chen, Weibo Chen, Hongqin Ma, Jian Xu, Yifeng Liu, Ronggui Lin, Yadong Dong, Yahong Yu, Min Wang, Renyi Qin
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to estimate whether the potential short-term advantages of laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (LPD) could allow patients to recover in a more timely manner and achieve better long-term survival than with open pancreaticoduodenectomy (OPD) in patients with pancreatic or periampullary tumors. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: LPD has been demonstrated to be feasible and may have several potential advantages over OPD in terms of shorter hospital stay and accelerated recovery than OPD...
November 15, 2023: Annals of Surgery