Laparoscopic-Assisted Frey Procedure: a New Option for Treatment of Pain in Chronic Pancreatitis
Sujit Kulkarni, Dilip Parekh*, Rick Selby, Kaylene Barrera
Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
The Frey procedure is an established procedure for treatment of pain in chronic pancreatitis. A laparoscopic technique for this procedure has not been described previously. In this video we describe a laparoscopic-assisted redo Frey procedure with a peustow-type pancreaticojejunostomy performed with the Da Vinci robot in a 46y old female with familial pancreatitis who previously underwent a peustow procedure to the body and tail of the pancreas. The patient remains asymptomatic 2y after surgery. Laparoscopic Frey procedure may provide a new treatment option for intractable pain from chronic pancreatitis.
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