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World J Gastroenterol. Oct 7, 2006; 12(37): 5951-5958
Published online Oct 7, 2006. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i37.5951
Delayed gastric emptying is associated with pylorus-preserving but not classical Whipple pancreaticoduodenectomy: A review of the literature and critical reappraisal of the implicated pathomechanism
Kosmas I Paraskevas, Costas Avgerinos, Costas Manes, Dimitris Lytras, Christos Dervenis
Kosmas I Paraskevas, 2nd Departments of Surgery, Agia Olga General Hospital, Athens, Greece
Costas Avgerinos, Costas Manes, Dimitris Lytras, Christos Dervenis, 1st Departments of Surgery, Agia Olga General Hospital, Athens, Greece
Correspondence to: Christos Dervenis, MD, Head of the Department, Unit of Liver Surgery, 1st Department of Surgery, Agia Olga Hospital, 3-5 Agias Olgas Str, Nea Ionia 14233, Greece. chrisder@otenet.gr
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Received: May 31, 2006
Revised: June 12, 2006
Accepted: June 25, 2006
Published online: October 7, 2006
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