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Allen Whipple
Allen Oldfather Whipple (1881–1963) was an American surgeon at Columbia University who gave his name to the Whipple procedure for pancreatic tumors and described Whipple's triad for diagnosing insulinoma.
Ampullectomy
Ampullectomy is the surgical or endoscopic removal of the ampulla of Vater, where the bile and pancreatic ducts enter the duodenum, done for benign and selected malignant tumors.
Anatomic resection
Anatomic resection, also called anatomic lung resection, is surgery that removes an organ together with its anatomically defined segment, dividing the segmental bronchus, artery, and vein.
Anatomical resection
Anatomical resection, also known as anatomical liver resection, is a surgical technique that removes tumors along defined anatomical boundaries, such as the liver's eight Couinaud segments or the lung's bronchopulmonary segments.
Bile duct resection
Bile duct resection is a surgical procedure removing part or all of the bile duct, usually with reconstruction of biliary drainage, to treat cancer, strictures, and other biliary disease.
Biliary reconstruction
Biliary reconstruction is a surgical procedure that restores bile flow by rejoining the bile ducts to the intestine or each other after injury, resection, or transplantation.
Biliary Tract Surgical Procedures
Biliary tract surgical procedures (MeSH D001662) are operations on the bile ducts and gallbladder, chiefly cholecystectomy, bile duct exploration, and bilioenteric reconstruction, now mostly laparoscopic.
Celiac axis resection
Celiac axis resection, also called the modified Appleby procedure or DP-CAR, is surgery removing the celiac artery with the distal pancreas and spleen for locally advanced pancreatic cancer.
Central pancreatectomy
Central pancreatectomy, also known as middle pancreatectomy, is a pancreas-sparing operation removing the middle segment for benign or low-grade lesions, trading lower diabetes risk for a high fistula rate.
Cholecystostomy
Cholecystostomy, also known as percutaneous cholecystostomy, drains the gallbladder through a catheter placed through the abdominal wall, mainly to treat acute cholecystitis in patients unfit for surgery.
Choledochoduodenostomy
Choledochoduodenostomy is a surgical operation creating a direct connection between the common bile duct and the duodenum, most often performed for recurrent bile duct stones or benign strictures.
Choledochojejunostomy
Choledochojejunostomy is a surgical operation that joins the common bile duct to the jejunum, relieving biliary obstruction, most commonly from an obstructing periampullary mass of pancreatic or duodenal origin.
Cystogastrostomy
Cystogastrostomy is a surgical or endoscopic procedure creating an opening between a pancreatic fluid collection and the stomach so it drains internally, used mainly for pancreatic pseudocysts and walled-off necrosis.
Distal pancreatectomy
Distal pancreatectomy is an operation removing the pancreas body and tail to the left of the mesenteric vein, usually with the spleen, accounting for over 20% of pancreatic resections.
Duodenopancreatectomy
Duodenopancreatectomy, most often called the Whipple operation or pancreaticoduodenectomy, is surgery removing the pancreatic head and duodenum, the standard treatment for pancreatic head and periampullary cancers.
Hemihepatectomy
Hemihepatectomy, including right hemihepatectomy, is a major hepatobiliary operation that removes one half of the liver, right or left, along the Cantlie line, reserved mainly for malignant tumors.
Hepatectomy
Hepatectomy, also called major hepatectomy, is surgery to remove part of the liver, classically three or more of its eight segments, with mortality now 2 to 3%.
Hepaticojejunostomy
Hepaticojejunostomy, also called the Rodney Smith operation when performed with transhepatic intubation, is a surgical operation connecting the hepatic bile duct to a Roux-en-Y jejunal limb to bypass strictures and repair bile duct injuries.
Hepatoportoenterostomy
Hepatoportoenterostomy, also called the Kasai procedure or hepatic portoenterostomy, is an operation that restores bile drainage in infants with biliary atresia by joining a jejunal loop to the liver's porta hepatis.
Kasai portoenterostomy
Kasai portoenterostomy, also called hepatic portoenterostomy or KPE, is the first-line operation for infants with biliary atresia, connecting jejunum to the liver hilum to drain bile.
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a minimally invasive operation that removes the gallbladder through small abdominal incisions using a laparoscope and carbon dioxide insufflation, the standard treatment for symptomatic gallstones.
Laparoscopic liver resection
Laparoscopic liver resection is a minimally invasive operation that removes part of the liver through small incisions, used for liver tumors and living-donor hepatectomy, first reported in 1992.
Laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy
Laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (LPD) is a minimally invasive operation for pancreatic and periampullary tumors, first reported in 1994, offering less blood loss and shorter hospital stay than open surgery.
Laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy
Laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy (LPD) is a minimally invasive alternative to the open Whipple operation for pancreatic and periampullary tumors, first reported in 1994, with comparable oncological outcomes.
Laparoscopic splenectomy
Laparoscopic splenectomy is a minimally invasive operation that removes the spleen through small abdominal incisions, first reported in 1992, used for hematologic diseases and splenic cysts but not trauma.
Lateral sectionectomy
Lateral sectionectomy is an anatomical liver resection removing the left lateral section of the liver, Couinaud segments II and III, performed open, laparoscopically, robotically, and as living-donor graft harvest.
Liver resection
Liver resection, also called hepatectomy, is surgery that removes part or all of the liver, mainly to treat primary and metastatic liver tumors; up to 80% can be removed from a healthy liver.
Microwave ablation
Microwave ablation (MWA) is a minimally invasive, image-guided treatment that heats tumors with microwave energy, used chiefly for liver and lung cancers that cannot be resected.
Modular pancreatosplenectomy
Modular pancreatosplenectomy, best known as radical antegrade modular pancreatosplenectomy (RAMPS), removes the distal pancreas, spleen, and lymph nodes en bloc for pancreatic body and tail cancer, reported by Strasberg in 2003.
Necrosectomy
Necrosectomy is the removal of dead tissue, most often necrotic pancreatic and peripancreatic tissue in severe necrotizing pancreatitis, now usually done by a minimally invasive step-up approach starting with drainage.