Totally Laparoscopic Whipple’s Operation: Initial Report from the Caribbean

Oncologic surgery in the Caribbean has evolved over the past decade, with increasing reports of advanced minimally invasive operations being performed. However, the minimally invasive approach has not been used for peri-ampullary lesions. This is because a laparoscopic Whipple’s operation is a techn...

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Autores principales: Singh, Yardesh, Cawich, Shamir O, Mohammed, Sidiyq, Kuruvilla, Thivy, Naraynsingh, Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7182051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32337127
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7401
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author Singh, Yardesh
Cawich, Shamir O
Mohammed, Sidiyq
Kuruvilla, Thivy
Naraynsingh, Vijay
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description Oncologic surgery in the Caribbean has evolved over the past decade, with increasing reports of advanced minimally invasive operations being performed. However, the minimally invasive approach has not been used for peri-ampullary lesions. This is because a laparoscopic Whipple’s operation is a technically demanding and time-consuming operation. We report the first case of a totally laparoscopic Whipple’s operation to be performed in the Caribbean.
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spelling pubmed-71820512020-04-24 Totally Laparoscopic Whipple’s Operation: Initial Report from the Caribbean Singh, Yardesh Cawich, Shamir O Mohammed, Sidiyq Kuruvilla, Thivy Naraynsingh, Vijay Cureus General Surgery Oncologic surgery in the Caribbean has evolved over the past decade, with increasing reports of advanced minimally invasive operations being performed. However, the minimally invasive approach has not been used for peri-ampullary lesions. This is because a laparoscopic Whipple’s operation is a technically demanding and time-consuming operation. We report the first case of a totally laparoscopic Whipple’s operation to be performed in the Caribbean. Cureus 2020-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7182051/ /pubmed/32337127 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7401 Text en Copyright © 2020, Singh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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.
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title_short Totally Laparoscopic Whipple’s Operation: Initial Report from the Caribbean
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7182051/
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