Initial experience of lap assisted whipple's procedure from a tertiary care institute

Introduction: Pancreatico-duodenectomy is one of the most complex and challenging abdominal surgical procedures performed till date. Since Gagner first laparoscopic whipple's procedure in 1994, only few series have been published for same mostly because resection as well reconstruction involved procedure. We hereby present our initial experience with assisted Whipple's peri-ampullary tumours. Materials: This was a retrospective analysis prospectively collected database all pancreatico-duodenectomy done single unit at tertiary care centre from January 2017 - October 2019. All were malignancy. Result: Eight patients operated periampullary tumour. male except one, mean age 53.1 years. Mean operating time 298 ± 37 minutes. hospital stay 6.1 2.7 days. SSI delayed gastric emptying noted 2 each. One patient had grade A pancreatic fistula. There no mortality. R0 resection. Conclusion: Laparoscopic safe feasible treatment option carcinoma out any increase mortality morbidity equivalent oncological outcome