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Laparoscopic Total Pancreatectomy for Main-Duct IPMN
Thomas Schnelldorfer^*, David Brams, Frederick Heiss
Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA

The operative technique of laparoscopic total pancreatectomy with splenectomy will be presented in a patient with main-duct IPMN of the pancreas. This video demonstrates the feasibility of laparoscopic total pancreatectomy using a setup with five 12mm ports similar to laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy. It emphasizes the technique of safe laparoscopic resection while maintaining oncologic principles of margin negative resection. The steps for resection are demonstrated and are the same steps than for open resection but in different order to allow for a laparoscopic approach.

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