Amsterdam UMC, location Vrije Universiteit

1 article published in JoVE

• Medicine

  
  Robotic Spleen-Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy: The Warshaw and Kimura Techniques Evgenia Kotsifa^1,2,3, Sebastiaan Festen⁴, Olivier R. Busch^1,3, Marc G. Besselink^1,3, Freek Daams^2,3, HPB-Amsterdam, ¹Department of Surgery, Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, ²Department of Surgery, Amsterdam UMC, location Vrije Universiteit, ³Cancer Center Amsterdam, ⁴Department of Surgery, OLVG Here, we present a step-by-step protocol of robotic spleen preserving distal pancreatectomy, with and without preserving the splenic vessels (i.e., the Kimura and Warshaw techniques, respectively).