Allen Oldfather Whipple is a name that will be forever eponymously associated with pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer. This paper presents the history behind this procedure.

•Aggressive multi-organ resection of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) at the time of primary cytoreduction improves patient survival.•We describe pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple procedure) as an efficacious tool for optimal cytoreduction in bulky upper abdominal EOC.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the leading causes of oncologic morbidity and mortality worldwide. The definitive surgical management for pancreatic cancer includes pancreaticoduodenectomy with either anastomosis to, or implantation of remnant pancreas to the stomach (pancreaticogastrostomy) or the jejunum (pancreaticojejunostomy). Operative morbidity and mortality following pancreaticoduodenectomy...

Pain represents the main symptom of chronic pancreatitis (CP) and it may be considered the most important factor affecting the quality of life in patients having this pathology. Although the therapy for CP consists primarily of conservative and symptomrelated treatment, long-term follow-up studies have demonstrated that about 50% of all patients will undergo surgical treatment at some time in t...

The authors would like to correct the errors in Table 1 and text in the published article. The correct table and the text should read as below. In Table 1, the numbers for the intent-to-treat population for biliary stent and previous Whipple procedure were erroneously switched. Table 1 should appear as below. The corresponding text for Table 1 under the Baseline Characteristics heading in the R...