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What are the conditions under which surgery is needed on the pancreas?

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What are the conditions under which surgery is needed on the pancreas?

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There are both benign and malignant conditions which may be amenable to surgical treatment. The benign conditions include pseudocysts which have not responded to drainage through the skin, chronic pancreatitis and the pre-malignant condition known as intraductal papillary mucin-producing neoplasm (or tumor) (IPMN or IPMT). The malignant conditions include pancreatic adenocarcinoma (the most common and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer), cyst-adenocarcinoma, ampullary carcinoma and neuroendocrine tumors (such as islet-cell carcinoma). Return to top of page Q: Which is the most common operation on the pancreas? A: This is probably the Whipple procedure, which consists in removal of the head of the pancreas with the attached loop of duodenum (known as the duodenal-C, due to its shape) and reattachment of the stomach, bile duct and remaining pancreas to the jejunum (the second portion of the small bowel). Dr. Stieber prefers to perform the pylorus-sparing variation of the Whipple proced

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