UNLABELLED Pancreatic tumours are a serious medical and social issue. Patients come to the doctor too late, when the disease is well advanced. The most frequently applied method of surgical treatment is pancreatoduodenectomy (Whipple procedure). The most frequently used technique of pancreatoduodenectomy is the Child-Waugh method. The procedure can be performed in a classic way or as modified b...

In September 2005, the observing program of the Whipple 10 m gamma-ray telescope was redefined to be dedicated almost exclusively to AGN monitoring. Since then the five Northern Hemisphere blazars that had already been detected at Whipple are monitored routinely each night that they are visible. Thanks to the efforts of a large number of multiwavelength collaborators, the first year of this pro...

BACKGROUND Tumors of the pancreatic head often involve the superior mesenteric and portal veins. The purpose of this study was to assess perioperative outcomes after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) with concomitant vascular resection using the inferior mesenteric vein (IMV) as a guide for transection of the pancreatic body (Whipple at IMV, WATIMV). METHODS One hundred thirty-seven patients had s...

Introduction/Objective. Pancreatic cancer may be accompanied by infections caused various microorganisms. It is uncertain wheatear pancreatic infection precedes the development of or vice versa. The aim this study to analyze routes from duodenum through duct determine what types microorganisms can get into pancreas and nearby tissue. Methods. In patients subjected cephalic duodenopancreatectomy...

Introduction: The microbiome has been implicated in the pathogenesis of colorectal anastomotic fistulas. Collagenase-producing Enterococcus faecalis have shown to inhibit wound healing. However, fistula formation can be mitigated by appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis. Whether this paradigm also applies pancreatic fistulas following pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) is unknown. aim analysis determine w...

Tropheryma whipplei, which causes Whipple disease, has been detected in 4% of fecal samples from the general adult population of France. To identify T. whipplei within families, we conducted serologic and molecular studies, including genotyping, on saliva, feces, and serum from 74 relatives of 13 patients with classic Whipple disease, 5 with localized chronic T. whipplei infection, and 3 carrie...

colloid carcinoma, also called mucinous carcinoma, is classified as a histologic variant of adenocarcinoma. because the colloid carcinoma of the biliary tree is exceedingly rare, the imaging characteristics and the clinical features of colloid carcinoma remain relatively unknown. we report a case of colloid carcinoma of the common bile duct and its accompanied metastatic lymphadenopathies with ...