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World J Gastrointest Surg. Sep 27, 2016; 8(9): 634-642
Published online Sep 27, 2016. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v8.i9.634
Total pancreatectomy: Short- and long-term outcomes at a high-volume pancreas center
Hazem M Zakaria, John A Stauffer, Massimo Raimondo, Timothy A Woodward, Michael B Wallace, Horacio J Asbun
Hazem M Zakaria, Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplantation Surgery, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Al-Minufya 22732, Egypt
John A Stauffer, Horacio J Asbun, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, United States
Massimo Raimondo, Timothy A Woodward, Michael B Wallace, Department of Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, United States
Author contributions: Zakaria HM contributed to the conception and design of the study, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting and critical revision of the article, and generation/collection of figures; Stauffer JA contributed to the conception and design of the study, experiments, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting and critical revision of the article and generation/collection of figures; Raimondo M, Woodward TA and Wallace MB contributed to the conception and design of the study, experiments, collection of data and critical revision of the article; Asbun HJ contributed to the conception and design of the study, experiments, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting and critical revision of the article and generation/collection of figures; all authors gave final approval of the article.
Institutional review board statement: We conducted a retrospective study of 103 patients who underwent TP between March 1995 and December 2014 at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida using data collected from an institutional review board-approved prospective database.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient gave informed consent for institutional data collection and sharing.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Dr. Zakaria, Dr. Stauffer, Dr. Raimondo, Dr. Woodward, Dr. Wallace and Dr. Asbun report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: John A Stauffer, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, FL 32224, United States. stauffer.john@mayo.edu
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Received: March 17, 2016
Peer-review started: March 20, 2016
First decision: April 19, 2016
Revised: May 3, 2016
Accepted: July 11, 2016
Article in press: July 13, 2016
Published online: September 27, 2016
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Core Tip

Core tip: Treatment by total pancreatectomy for diseases of the pancreas has been gained acceptance and used more frequently by pancreatic surgeons. This review highlights a large volume single institutional experience with this operation demonstrating acceptable short-term and long-term outcomes.