Internal drainage for interdisciplinary management of anastomotic leakage after pancreaticogastrostomy.
Matthäus FelsensteinAnn-Christin AminiSophie DorferMengwen HuRuonan WangLea TimmermannKarl Herbert HillebrandtChristian BenzingUli FehrenbachUwe PelzerIgor Maximillian SauerJohann PratschkeChristian JürgensenThomas MalinkaPublished in: Surgical endoscopy (2023)
This study underscores the importance of endoscopy-guided approaches for adequate treatment of anastomotic leakage and/or peri-anastomotic fluid collections after pancreatoduodenectomy. We herein report a novel, interdisciplinary concept for internal drainage in the setting of pancreato-gastric reconstruction.