Digestive Disease Week study examined ACR's guidelines for CT colonography interpretation Jul 13, 2008
Of 165 patients who had EUS and CT/MRCP, 19 asymptomatic high risk individuals underwent partial resection (15), partial followed by completion pancreatectomy (3), or total pancreatectomy (1) for 44 pancreatic lesions (size range 2. 6-21 mm) detected by EUS, CT or MRCP. Researchers concluded that most pancreatic neoplasms detected by screening tests are small and low grade, but six percent of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms. (EurekAlert!)
Promising Advances In Islet Cell Transplants For Diabetes Jun 11, 2008
24, 2001) A 36-year-old Chicago man is recovering from a partial pancreatectomy followed by an auto-islet cell transplant at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago. The innovative dual procedure. (Science Daily)
Is The Future Of Surgery Painless And Scarless? May 21, 2008
A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial of NOTES versus Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy ... This prospective, randomized controlled trial compared the efficacy of endoscopic transgastric distal pancreatectomy (ETDP) to laproscopic distal pancreatectomy (LDP). (Science Daily)
First-Ever Robotic Pancreatectomy Successful Jun 2, 2007
Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago performed a groundbreaking robotic pancreatectomy in a 39-year-old man to relieve him of debilitating pain ... is the first patient in the world to undergo a pancreatectomy, or removal of the pancreas, using robotic surgery, said Dr. Jose Oberholzer, associate professor of surgery and bioengineering at UIC and director of cell and pancreas transplantation at the medical center ... Oberholzer said the robotic surgery allowed him to... (Science Daily)
