Accurate Combined Preoperative Localization of Insulinomas Aid the Choice for Enucleation: A Single Institution Experience over 25 Years

Tingting Zhang, Yiming Mu, Ling Qu, Xianling Wang, Zhaohui Lv, Jin Du, Qinghua Guo, Jianming Ba, Jing–tao Dou, Ju-ming Lu

Hepatogastroenterology · 2012 · 20 citations · 0 references

Abstract

Accurate combined preoperative localization of insulinomas is useful of the choice of enucleation, eliminates the need for blind distal pancreatectomy and avoids re-operation. Whenever possible, a pancreas-sparing approach such as enucleation should be adopted.