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Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery for Cystic Tumors of the Pancreas

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Minimizing invasiveness is prevalent in nearly all aspects of surgery, and pancreatic surgery is no exception. Over the last two decades, laparoscopic pancreatic surgery has transitioned from experimental to becoming accepted within the standard of care, for procedures ranging from enucleation of pancreatic masses to distal pancreatectomy and, more recently, pancreaticoduodenectomy. Most reports of minimally invasive pancreatic surgery remain small, and thus few focus specifically on cystic neoplasms, but rather combine patients who received similar surgeries for a variety of indications. Cystic tumors of the pancreas lend themselves to minimally invasive management because they typically lack invasiveness to surrounding organs, are removed prophylactically in younger patients, and can be easily visualized laparoscopically.

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Stewart, C.L., Edil, B.H. (2016). Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery for Cystic Tumors of the Pancreas. In: Del Chiaro, M., Haas, S., Schulick, R. (eds) Cystic Tumors of the Pancreas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31882-0_12

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