Laparoscopic Spleen-Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy (LSPDP) versus Open Spleen-Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy (OSPDP): A Comparative Study.

Jing HuangDipesh Kumar YadavChaojie XiongYe ShengXinhua' ZhouXiujun Cai

Published in: Canadian journal of gastroenterology & hepatology (2019)

This study confirms that LSPDP is safe, feasible, and superior to OSPDP in terms of operative time, intraoperative blood loss, hospital stay, and postoperative recovery. Hence, it is worth popularizing LSPDP for benign and low-grade malignant tumors of the pancreas.

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