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What is a pancreatectomy?

What is a pancreatectomy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (surgery) The procedure to remove part or all of the pancreas.
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Survival after total enterectomy, pancreatectomy, and portal vein ligation, and the effect of such a condition on liver function have never been reported in humans.
After the distal pancreatectomy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma, the patient received radiation and radiosensitizing chemotherapy treatments.
An exploratory laparotomy with distal pancreatectomy was subsequently performed.
March, 2000 In patients with pancreatectomy or obstruction of pancreatic ducts: one to two VIOKASE 8 tablets or one VIOKASE 16 tablet taken at 2-hour intervals or as directed by a physician.
Because of the presence of the IPMH that was identified at the margins of the resected specimen, a distal pancreatectomy was performed.
In light of the cyst recurrence and the glandular tumor in the spleen, a distal pancreatectomy was performed.

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