Outcomes after distal pancreatectomy with or without splenectomy for intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm: international multicentre cohort study.
Myrte GorrisEduard A van BodegravenMohammad Abu HilalLouisa BolmOlivier R C BuschMarco Del ChiaroJoseph HabibKiyoshi HasegawaJin HeJeanin E van HooftJin-Young JangAmmar A JavedYusuke KazamiWooil KwonMirang LeeRong LiuFuyuhiko MotoiGiampaolo PerriAkio SaiuraRoberto SalviaHideki SasanumaYoshinori TakedaChristopher WolfgangPiotr ZelgaCarlos Fernandez-Del CastilloGiovanni MarchegianiMarc G H BesselinkPublished in: The British journal of surgery (2024)
This international cohort study found LNM in 6.7% of patients undergoing distal pancreatectomy for IPMN. In patients without preoperative suspicion of malignancy, SPDP seemed oncologically safe and was associated with improved short-term outcomes compared with DPS.