Laparoscopic Pancreas Resection
April 22nd, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Cutting through the serosa of the pancreas.
Two videos I’ve made of surgery for pancreatic cancer was published on www.oncolex.no last week. The first one is a laparoscopic resection of the tail of pancreas. As always, the voice overs are in Norwegian, so I publish a short summary in English here. « Read the rest of this entry »
ERCP
March 27th, 2009 § 1 Comment
A gastroenterologist watching the monitors during an ERCP.
A video I’ve made of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) was published on www.oncolex.no yesterday. This is an endoscopic procedure used both for diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic-, gallbladder- and bile duct cancer. I provide a brief summary of the video here, as the voice overs are in Norwegian. « Read the rest of this entry »
Inoperable
February 18th, 2009 § 2 Comments
Organs removed in the Whipple procedure.
A post over at IntraopOrate reminded me of a belief I held before knowing much about surgery. Reading it also coincided with an operation I was filming this week, in which the patient’s pancreatic tumor turned out to be inoperable. « Read the rest of this entry »
