Treatment of an Inoperable Pancreatic Cyst
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After preparation, the patient was put under chloroform and the abdomen was opened by a longitudinal incision about 6 inches in length in the middle line above the umbilicus. The tumour became palpable, but not visible. An opening was made through the gastrocolic layer below the greater curvature of the stomach and also below the level of the gastro-epiploic vessels securing both the cut ends of the descending branches, and then both the layers of the transverse meso-colon
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