METHOD FOR PANCREATIC RESECTION IN CHRONIC PANCREATITIS Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61B17/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine and may be used for pancreatic resection in chronic pancreatitis. It involves applying 5-7 sutures for pancreaticoduodenal artery ligature feeding a head of pancreas along an internal duodenal loop. It is followed by crateriform excision of the central portion of the head of pancreas with Santorini's and Wirsung's ducts. A probe inserted in a lumen of the Wirsung's duct and used as a mark to excise the Wirsung's duct with surrounding changed tissues in the form of a wedge to a level of junction of the pancreas to a tail to form a gutter cavity open anteriad in pancreatic tissue to be anastomosed with the lumen of a longitudinally Roux-opened defunctioned small intestinal loop by a single-layer continuous suture.

EFFECT: method enables reducing injuries, improving quality of drainage of the pancreatic ducts.

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