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| Retroaortic left renal vein associated to variations of liver vasculature and biliary system in a patient submitted to total pancreatectomy |
| Alessandro Fancellu a , ∗, Mario Maiore b , Lavinia Grasso a , Miriam Ferrara a , Alberto Porcu a |
a Department of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, Unit of General Surgery 2 - Clinica Chirurgica, University of Sassari, Sassari 07100, Italy
b Department of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, Unit of Radiology, University of Sassari, Sassari 07100, Italy
∗ Corresponding author.
E-mail address: afancel@uniss.it (A. Fancellu). |
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Abstract Total pancreatectomy (TP) is a surgical procedure which includes the complete removal of the pancreatic gland, the spleen, the duodenum, the gallbladder, and the distal part of the stomach. TP represents the curative treatment of pancreatic cancer which simultaneously involves the head and the body/tail of the pancreas. Other possible indications for TP comprise multifocal parenchymal diseases, such as intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, multiple endocrine neoplasms, and chronic pancreatitis. Sometimes, TP is carried out in patients scheduled for pancreaticoduodenectomy (where only the head of the pancreas is removed) when a cancer located in the pancreatic head is intraoperatively found to also extend to the pancreatic body [1].
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2024, Vol. 23 
