SynthesisPancreas2014
Portal annular pancreas: a systematic review of a clinical challenge.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Distal cholangiocarcinoma in a patient with portal annular pancreas and aberrant common hepatic artery: a case report.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- Robot-Assisted Distal Pancreatectomy for Pancreatic Cancer with Type IIIa Portal Annular Pancreas Using a Novel Strategy of Ventral Pancreas Preservation: A Case Report.Surgical case reports · 2026Article
- Challenges and outcomes of pancreato-duodenectomy in portal annular pancreas: A single center experience with a systematic review of the literature.Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery · 2025Article
- Robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy for portal annular pancreas: how to do it.Surgery today · 2025Article
- Management of Pancreatectomy for Pancreatic Cancer in a Patient With Annular Portal Pancreas: A Case Report.Cureus · 2025Article
- Successful Laparoscopic-Assisted Pancreaticoduodenectomy for a Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Papilla of Vater in Type 1 Portal Annular Pancreas.Surgical case reports · 2025Article
- Robotic Pancreaticoduodenectomy Using theSurgical case reports · 2025Article
- Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy for Lymph Node Metastasis around Splenic Artery from Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Patient with Portal Annular Pancreas.Surgical case reports · 2025Article
- Minimally invasive pancreaticoduodenectomy for circumportal pancreas: literature review and report of two type IIIA cases.Surgical case reports · 2024Article
- Pancreatic ultrasound: An update of measurements, reference values, and variations of the pancreas.Ultrasound international open · 2024Review
- The diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound and upper gastrointestinal contrast studies for locating atresia/stenosis and intestinal malrotation and detecting annular pancreas in pediatric patients with duodenal atresia/stenosis.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2022Article
- How to divide the pancreatic parenchyma in patients with a portal annular pancreas: laparoscopic spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy for serous cystic neoplasms.Surgical case reports · 2020Article
- Circumportal pancreas: A report of two cases.Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery · 2019Article
- Central pancreatectomy in portal annular pancreas for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a case report.World journal of surgical oncology · 2019Article
- Circumportal pancreas accompanied with pancreas divisum in a deceased donor for islet transplantation.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2018Article
- Circumportal pancreas: prevalence, subtypes and vascular variations of 55 patients.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2018Article
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- Optimal literature search for systematic reviews in surgery.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2018Review
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- Successful resection of pancreatic head cancer in a patient with circumportal pancreas: a case report with technical consideration.Innovative surgical sciences · 2017Article
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Abstract
Portal annular pancreas (PAP) is an asymptomatic congenital pancreas anomaly, in which portal and/or mesenteric veins are encased by pancreas tissue. The aim of the study was to determine the role of PAP in pancreatic surgery as well as its management and potential complication, specifically, postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF).On the basis of a case report, the MEDLINE and ISI Web of Science databases were systematically reviewed up to September 2012. All articles describing a case of PAP were considered.In summary, 21 studies with 59 cases were included. The overall prevalence of PAP was 2.4% and the patients' mean (SD) age was 55.9 (16.2) years. The POPF rate in patients with PAP (12 pancreaticoduodenectomies and 3 distal pancreatectomies) was 46.7% (in accordance with the definition of the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery).Portal annular pancreas is a quite unattended pancreatic variant with high prevalence and therefore still remains a clinical challenge to avoid postoperative complications. To decrease the risk for POPF, attentive preoperative diagnostics should also focus on PAP. In pancreaticoduodenectomy, a shift of the resection plane to the pancreas tail should be considered; in extensive pancreatectomy, coverage of the pancreatic remnant by the falciform ligament could be a treatment option.
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