L. William Traverso

TL;DR: The International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery (ISGPS) developed an objective and generally applicable definition with grades of delayed gastric emptying (DGE) based primarily on severity and clinical impact as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Patients without distant metastases and no evidence of tumor extension to the SMV and portal vein and clear fat planes around the celiac axis, the hepatic artery, and SMA should be categorized as having localized and resectable cancers.

TL;DR: The transpapillary treatment of ongoing pancreatic ductal disruption with or without fluid collection has the potential to obviate surgery in some patients, change an urgent surgical procedure into an elective one, or even assist the surgeon in the performance of intraoperative pancreatography.

TL;DR: Overall survival may be improved for patients with adenocarcinoma in the pancreatic head using an adjuvant interferon-based chemoradiation protocol, and actuarial 2-year and 5-year overall survival rates suggest a potential for improved long-term survival.

TL;DR: In this paper, a group of pancreatic tumors have been termed intraductal papillary mucinous tumors (IPMT), which are demonstrated by pancreatography to reside in the main pancreatic duct (MPD) or side branch ducts (SBD). Lesions of IPMT result in abdominal pain or pancreatitis symptoms.