In spite of debates, minimally invasive radical distal pancreatosplenectomy is carefully thought to be safe and effective in well selected left-sided pancreatic cancer. Several significant literatures are demonstrating that it can result in comparable oncologic outcomes of conventional open distal pancreatectomy. It is general that patients with resected pancreatic cancer experience systemic me...

Solitary metastatic pancreatic lesions comprise 0.5% to 3% of all pancreas neoplasms, most commonly arising from primary tumors of the kidney, lung, or colon. Synchronous metastatic pancreatic lesions are exceptionally rare. Only 25 cases of isolated colorectal pancreatic metastasis amenable to resection have been reported, 11 of those in the distal pancreas. To our knowledge we report the firs...

Pancreatic injury is the fourth most common abdominal organ injury (following injuries of the spleen, liver and kidneys) [1]. Pancreatic injuries are usually very hard to identify by different diagnostic imaging methods, and these injuries are often overlooked in patients with multiorgan trauma [2]. Unfortunately, in literature, our current understanding and approach to the management of trauma...

The question of whether dedicated progenitor cells exist in adult vertebrate pancreas remains controversial. Centroacinar cells and terminal duct (CA/TD) cells lie at the junction between peripheral acinar cells and the adjacent ductal epithelium, and are frequently included among cell types proposed as candidate pancreatic progenitors. However these cells have not previously been isolated in a...