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...

A well-known formula of Whipple relates certain hypergeometric values $$_7F_6(1)$$ and $$_4F_3(1)$$ . In this paper, we revisit relation from the viewpoint underlying data HD, to which there are also associated character sums Galois representations. We explain a special structure behind Whipple’s when HD primitive self-dual. If defined over $$\mathbb Q$$ , by work Katz, Beukers, Cohen, Mellit, ...

Whipple is one of the most demanding and complex surgeries of the abdomen. It is the most commonly performed operation for pancreatic cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. For patients with benign as well as malignant pancreatic tumors, it is believed that the robotic Whipple procedure will be a major improvement over the traditional procedure. The robotic surge...

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...

The pancreaticoduodenectomy, commonly referred to as the Whipple resection, is the en bloc surgical resection of the pancreas head and uncinate process, duodenum, gallbladder, common bile duct, and common hepatic duct just proximal to the cystic duct takeoff with (conventional) or without (pylorus-sparing) the gastric antrum. Although generally an oncologic procedure, the Whipple resection can ...