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Frederique Vissers

Frederique Vissers

Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, The Netherlands

Frederique Vissers (1991) is a PhD student at the Department of Surgery, Amsterdam Medical Centers, location AMC, The Netherlands. Her research mainly focusses on minimally invasive pancreatic surgery.

Safi Dokmak

Safi Dokmak

Hospital of Beaujon, Clichy, France

Safi Dokmak (MD, PhD) is a HPB surgeon at Beaujon Hospital (Clichy), University Paris VII, France.  He did his surgical training in Paris Hospitals (Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris) from 1999 to 2004, whereas he did his residency from 2004 to 2008 in HPB surgery in Beaujon Hospital and since 2008 works in the same hospital as a consultant (Practicien Hospitalier). He is an expert in liver surgery, pancreatic surgery, liver and small bowel transplantation, by open and minimally invasive approaches. Furthermore, he is one of the pioneers for the development of pancreatic minimally invasive surgery with personal experience in more than 500 cases including all types of resection and many publications. Besides this, he has developed many innovations in all fields of HPB surgery including mostly the reconstruction of the vein by the parietal peritoneum. He has published more than 140 indexed publications, 10 textbook chapters and participated in close to 150 national and international conferences. He has participated in many retrospectives and randomized Europeans studies as well. He is a reviewer for many scientific journals like British Journal of Surgery and Annals of Surgical Oncology.

Ugo Boggi

Ugo Boggi

Universitá di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Professor Ugo Boggi was born in Carrara (MS) on June 21, 1965, graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery in 1990 from the University of Pisa and has achieved two specializations, both with honors (General Surgery, Abdominal Surgery and Surgical Digestive Endoscopy, University of Pisa). Prof. Ugo Boggi also received part of his training at the Cabrini Medical Center, a hospital in New York (USA). Currently Professor Boggi is Professor in General Surgery at the University of Pisa, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, directs the U.O. Complex of General Surgery and Transplantation of the University Hospital of Pisa - Department of Integrated Oncology and Transplantation and is an Associate Professor in General Surgery at the prestigious University of Pittsburgh.

Marc Besselink

Marc Besselink

Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, The Netherlands

Marc Besselink (1976) is a Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) surgeon at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, the Netherlands with a strong clinical and research interest in pancreatic cancer, pancreatitis and laparoscopic HPB surgery. Marc finished his medical training in Utrecht in 2002. He earned his PhD (cum laude) on acute pancreatitis from Utrecht University in 2008 and MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care from Oxford University in 2014. In 2002, he was the co-founder of the Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group (www.pancreatitis.nl) and in 2012 he was the co-founder of the Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group (www.dpcg.nl). He has coordinated the 2013 Evidence-Based Guidelines for the Management of Acute Pancreatitis for the International Association of Pancreatology and the American Pancreatic Association. He has published over 240 peer-reviewed papers and has (co-)developed and (co-)coordinated multiple randomized controlled multicenter trials in acute pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer, several of which are published in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. In 2018, Marc Besselink became full professor in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery at the University of Amsterdam.

Collection Overview

Minimally invasive pancreatic surgery is on the rise worldwide. Minimally invasive distal pancreatectomy (MIDP) has been reported to be superior to open distal pancreatectomy (ODP) in terms of blood loss and hospital stay. The oncological safety of MIDP for pancreatic cancer, however, remains uncertain and randomized controlled trials are needed (Riviere et al, Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2016). Interestingly, a recent study comparing open and minimally invasive pancreatoduodenectomy (MIPD), found similar morbidity and hospital stay, but higher rates of postoperative pancreatic fistula in the MIPD group (Klompmaker et al, Ann Surg 2018). These results may be related to the steep learning curve in MIPD suggesting the need of careful patients selection, access to a high number of patients and intense training for a safe implementation of this procedure.

In this collection, laparoscopic and robot-assisted procedures (both MIDP and MIPD) performed by world-renowned pancreatic surgeons are shown. 

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Technical Detail for Robot Assisted Pancreaticoduodenectomy
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Technical Detail for Robot Assisted Pancreaticoduodenectomy

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Robot Assisted Distal Pancreatectomy with Celiac Axis Resection (DP-CAR) for Pancreatic Cancer: Surgical Planning and Technique

Pavan Rao*1,

Brian Boone*1,

Carl Schmidt*1

1West Virginia University Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology