Pancreatic fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy—does surgical technique matter?

School of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Division of Pancreatic Surgery, Pancreas Translational & Clinical Research Center, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy Correspondence to: Massimo Falconi, MD. Department of Surgery, Division of Pancreatic Surgery, San Raffaele Scientific Institute IRCCS, Università Vita-Salute, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy. Email: falconi.massimo@hsr.it. Provenance: This is an invited article commissioned by the Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine. Comment on: Kim SG, Paik KY, Oh JS. The vulnerable point of modified blumgart pancreaticojejunostomy regarding pancreatic fistula learned from 51 consecutive pancreaticoduodenectomy. Ann Transl Med 2019;7:630.

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