Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 1 , Pages 15-23 , July 2010

Fatty pancreas and increased body mass index are risk factors of pancreatic fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy

  • Sébastien Gaujoux, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Paris, France
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  • Alexandre Cortes, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Paris, France
  • ,
  • Anne Couvelard, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Paris, France
  • ,
  • Séverine Noullet, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Paris, France
  • ,
  • Laurent Clavel, MSc

      Affiliations

    • AP-HP, Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, and University Paris 7, and Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, Paris, France
  • ,
  • Vinciane Rebours, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Paris, France
  • ,
  • Philippe Lévy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Paris, France
  • ,
  • Alain Sauvanet, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Paris, France
  • ,
  • Philippe Ruszniewski, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Paris, France
  • ,
  • Jacques Belghiti, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Paris, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jacques Belghiti, MD, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Hospital Beaujon, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110 Clichy, France.

,Accepted 7 December 2009.

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 S.G. and A.C. contributed equally to this work.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00797-1

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.12.005

Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 1 , Pages 15-23 , July 2010