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The Standardization of Pancreatoduodenectomy: Where Are We?

Pancreas 2016 April
Pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) represents an important challenge for surgeons due to the complexity of the operation, requirement for technical skills and experience, and postoperative management involving important and life-threatening complications. Despite efforts to reduce mortality in high-volume centers, the morbidity rate is still high (approximately 40-50%). The PD standardization process of surgical aspects and preoperative and postoperative settings is essential to permit pancreatic surgeons to communicate in the same language, compare experiences and results, and to improve the short- and long-term outcomes. The aim of this article is to assess the state of the art practices for important matters of debate for PD (the role of mini invasive approach, the definition and the role of mesopancreas, the extent of lymphadenectomy, the different methods of reconstructions, the prophylactic drainage of the abdominal cavity), and to suggest possible future studies.

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