Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 144-153 , January 2010

Toward improving uniformity and standardization in the reporting of pancreatic anastomoses: A new classification system by the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery (ISGPS)

  • Parul J. Shukla, MS, FRCS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Parul J. Shukla, MS, FRCS, Associate Professor and Consultant Surgeon, Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai 400 012, India.
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  • Savio G. Barreto, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
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  • Abe Fingerhut, MD, FACS, FRCS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal, Poissy, France and the Department of Surgery, University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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  • Claudio Bassi, MD, FRCS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgical and Gastroenterological Sciences Hospital G. B. Rossi, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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  • Markus W. Büchler, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Christos Dervenis, MD

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Surgery, Agia Olga Hospital, Athens, Greece
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  • Dirk Gouma, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Jakob R. Izbicki, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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  • John Neoptolemos, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Surgery and Oncology, Royal University Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK
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  • Robert Padbury, MD, FRACS, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Specialty Services, Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders, South Australia
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  • Michael G. Sarr, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Gastroenterology Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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  • William Traverso, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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  • Charles J. Yeo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
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  • Moritz N. Wente, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

,Accepted 9 September 2009.

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