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This is the Scientific Surgery Archive, which contains all randomized clinical trials in surgery that have been identified by searching the top 50 English language medical journal issues since January 1998. Compiled by Jonothan J. Earnshaw, former Editor-in-Chief, BJS

Prophylactic octreotide and delayed gastric emptying after pancreaticoduodenectomy: results of a prospective randomized, double-blinded placebo-controlled trial. Eur J Surg Oncol 2008; 34: 868-875.

Published: 1st January 2008

Authors: Kollmar O, Moussavian MR, Richter S, de Roi P, Maurer CA, Schilling MK. et al.

Conclusion

Octreotide did not affect the rate of gastric emptying, as studied by gastric scintigraphy, or the rate of postoperative pancreatic fistula (3 per cent) in this study that included 67 pancreatic resections.



 

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