Preoperative biliary stenting is associated with detrimental perioperative morbidity – a propensity matched analysis of over 900 patients from the German pancreas registry

Objectives The impact of preoperative biliary stenting (PBS) on postoperative complication rates in patients undergoing pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) for pancreatic cancer is controversially discussed. We aimed to assess perioperative morbidity of PBS prior to PD for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in a large-scale multi-center German DGAV-STUDOQ registry study.

Source: Pancreatology - June 1, 2018 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Louisa Bolm, Ekaterina Petrova, Lukas Woehrmann, Jens Werner, Waldemar Uhl, Natascha Nuessler, Michael Ghadimi, Dirk Bausch, Hryhoriy Lapshyn, Jochen Gaedcke, Orlin Belyaev, Jan G. D'Haese, Thomas Klier, Tobias Keck, Ulrich F. Wellner, German DGAV-StuDoQ Tags: Session 4. Surgical issues of pancreatic tumor resection - free papers Source Type: research