Central pancreatectomy: The Dagradi Serio Iacono operation. Evolution of a surgical technique from the pioneers to the robotic approach

Figure 1 Dr. JMT Finney (courtesy of National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Department of Health and Human Services Bethesda, MD, United States).

Figure 2 Technique performed by Guillemin and Bessot to reconstruct an accidental pancreatic transection while searching for the Wirsung duct for intraoperative wirsungraphy (published in Mem Acad Chir Paris; 83: 869-871, with permission of Mem Acad Chir Paris).

Figure 3 Drawing of reconstruction after pancreatic traumatic transection of the pancreatic neck using by Letton and Wilson (published on Surg Gynecol Obstet 109: 473-478, with permission of Elsevier Science Inc. United States).

Figure 4 Professor Adamo Dagradi, a pioneer in hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery (from the book: Scritti in onore di Adamo Dagradi nel XXV anniversario del suo ordinariato, Grafiche Fiorini, Verona 1989 with permission).

Figure 5 Surgical specimen from the first central pancreatectomy operation to resect an insulinoma of the pancreatic neck (published in J Gastrointest Surg 11: 364-376 with permission of Springer, New York, United States).

Figure 6 Surgical technique of central pancreatectomy reported in 1984 in Enciclopedia Medica Italiana (with permission of UTET Scienze Mediche, Torino, Italy).

Figure 7 Trend of publications and number of cases of central pancreatectomy from 1988 to 2010.