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Combined intraoperative alcohol celiac ablation and lateral pancreaticojejunostomy for chronic pancreatitis

Abstracts from the 10th Annual Society of Black Academic Surgeons Meeting

Purpose: Severe abdominal pain secondary to chronic pancreatitis is often multifactorial in origin. Lateral pancreaticojejunostomy (LPJ) is currently the accepted surgical treatment of choice when the main pancreatic duct is found dilated. Nonsurgical treatment of intractable pain with alcohol celiac plexus ablation has been used without clear benefit. The aim of this study is to compare outcomes of 2 groups of patients (LPJ alone vs LPJ with intraoperative alcohol celiac ablation).

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