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ReviewWorld journal of gastrointestinal surgery2022

Indications for the surgical management of pancreatic trauma: An update.

Efstathios Theodoros Pavlidis, Kyriakos Psarras, Nikolaos G Symeonidis, Georgios Geropoulos, Theodoros Efstathios Pavlidis

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Review in World journal of gastrointestinal surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Efstathios Theodoros Pavlidis2 Propedeutic Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki 54642, Greece.
Kyriakos Psarras2 Propedeutic Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki 54642, Greece.
Nikolaos G Symeonidis2 Propedeutic Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki 54642, Greece.
Georgios GeropoulosDepartment of General Surgery, University College London Hospitals, London NW1 2BU, United Kingdom.
Theodoros Efstathios Pavlidis2 Propedeutic Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki 54642, Greece. pavlidth@auth.gr.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic trauma is rare compared to other abdominal solid organ injuries, accounting for 0.2%-0.3% of all trauma patients. Moreover, this type of injury may frequently be overlooked or not readily appreciated on initial clinical examinations and investigations. The organ injury scale determines the severity of the trauma. Nonetheless, there are conflicting recommendations for the best strategy in severe cases. Overall, conservative management of induced severe traumatic pancreatitis is adequate. Modern imaging modalities such as ultrasound scanning and computed tomography scanning can detect injuries in fewer than 60% of patients. However, magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) have diagnostic accuracies approaching 90%-100%. Thus, management options include ERCP and stent placement or distal pancreatectomy in cases of complete gland transection and wide drainage only for damage control surgery, which can prevent mortality but increases the risk of morbidity. In the majority of cases, surgical intervention is not required and should be reserved for only severe grade III to grade V injuries.

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Abdominal traumaAcute pancreatitisDamage control surgeryEmergency surgeryPancreasPancreatic traumatic injury

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PMID35979422
PMCPMC9258242

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