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. 2024 Mar;31(3):1916-1918.
doi: 10.1245/s10434-023-14686-8. Epub 2023 Dec 10.

Levels of Robotic Mesopancreas Dissection According to Malignancy and Vascular Anatomy: What Surgeons Need to Know

Benedetto Ielpo  1 , Maria Vittoria d'Addetta  2   3 , Alessandro Anselmo  4 , Edoardo Rosso  5 , Vito de Blasi  5 , Patricia Sanchez-Velazquez  2 , Gemma Vellalta  2 , Mauro Podda  6 , Fernando Burdio  2
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Levels of Robotic Mesopancreas Dissection According to Malignancy and Vascular Anatomy: What Surgeons Need to Know

Benedetto Ielpo et al. Ann Surg Oncol. 2024 Mar.

Abstract

Introduction: The robotic approach is attracting increasing interest among the surgical community, and more and more series describing robotic pancreatoduodenectomy have been reported. Thus, surgeons performing robotic pancreatoduodenectomy should be confident with this critical step's potential scenarios.

Materials and methods: According to Yosuke et al., there are three different levels of mesopancreas dissection. We describe the main steps for a safe mesopancreas dissection by robotic approach.

Results: This multimedia article provides, for the first time in literature, a comprehensive step-by-step overview of the mesopancreas dissection during robotic pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) and its three different levels according to tumor type.

Conclusions: Through the tips and indications presented in this multimedia article, we aim to familiarize surgeons with the mesopancreas dissections levels according to type of malignancy and vascular anatomy.

Keywords: Mesopancreas; Pancreatoduodenectomy; Robotic.

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Authors declares no conflict of interest.

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