Twenty-Three Years of the Warshaw Operation for Distal Pancreatectomy With Preservation of the Spleen

Abstract

Spleen preservation with the Warshaw operation has a low postoperative failure rate of 1.9%. Radiologic evidence of asymptomatic perigastric varices was identified in 25% of patients. There were no clinical consequences of perigastric varices in any patient during a follow-up period of up to 21 years.