ATLANTA Medicine: Surgery of the liver and pancreas has progressed tremendously in recent years. Advances in nonsurgical treatments are paralleled and, in some cases, outpaced by surgical advances to problems impacting the hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) tract, leading to
growth in the population of patients with (benign and malignant) diseases of the liver and pancreas that benefit from surgery.
Complex GI surgery in general and HPB surgery in particular requires a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach. The use of technology is not enough to assure optimal outcome; rather, careful assessment, patient preparation/patient education and evaluation by experienced clinicians followed by proper application of therapies in an optimal sequence enable application of sophisticated surgical techniques and new technology, leading to efficient recovery and the best possible results.
There are several key surgical advances, when delivered in an organized, multidisciplinary program setting, that have expanded the population of patients who can undergo potentially curative surgical therapy for a range of HPB disorders involving these organs.
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