Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 472906, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/472906
Review Article
Technical Aspects of Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy for Benign and Malignant Disease: Review of the Literature
1Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, Netherlands
2Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
3Department of Surgery, Southampton University Hospital, Southampton, UK
Received 31 December 2014; Accepted 7 June 2015
Academic Editor: Oliver Strobel
Copyright © 2015 T. de Rooij et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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