Total Pancreatectomy

Abstract

AN INCREASING interest in surgery of the pancreas has been manifested since the demonstration by Whipple,¹ in 1935, of the practicability of partial pancreatectomy for the relief of cancer arising in or about the head of the pancreas. A natural outgrowth of this interest is recent efforts aimed at the feasibility of total pancreatectomy not only for the elimination of more extensive cancers but also for the relief of certain types of benign pancreatic disease. To date 16 cases of total pancreatectomy have been reported in the literature. Because the physiologic changes incident to total pancreatectomy in man are as . . .