An ink marker at the descending part of the gastrojejunostomy or duodenojejunostomy after a pancreaticoduodenectomy or pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy prevents a misplacing of a postoperative endoscopic intervention.

Cases of congenital hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus have been so frequently noticed of late that the mere record of a case is of little or no interest.

A 75-years-old, female patient, who takes non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) frequently due to her arthralgia symptoms, applied to our clinic with the complaints of abdominal pain in the epigastric region. She had endoscopy, which revealed a region with a depressed center at the small curvature side, distal to antrum in the prepyloric region. When this region was forced mildly by the...

Twenty patients underwent a pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy for benign or malignant periampullary and pancreatic disease. Eighteen patients had a partial and two patients a total pancreatectomy. There were 19 elective and 1 emergency operations. Post-operative mortality was 4% (1/20 patients) and the median follow up was 31 months (range, 15-75 months), during which period 8 patients w...

Pylorus-preserving gastrectomy (PPG) is a function-preserving surgery for the treatment of early gastric cancer (EGC), aiming to decrease the complication rate and improve postoperative quality of life. According to the Japanese gastric cancer treatment guidelines, PPG can be performed for cT1N0M0 gastric cancer located in the middle-third of the stomach, at least 4.0 cm away from the pylorus. ...