Venous bypass grafting for celiac occlusion in radical pancreaticoduodenectomy

Pancreas. 1991 May;6(3):368-71. doi: 10.1097/00006676-199105000-00014.

Abstract

Radical pancreaticoduodenectomy was performed for cancer of the head of the pancreas in a 65-year-old male patient with congenital celiac occlusion. Preoperative angiography revealed that the arterial flow to the liver, spleen, and stomach was supplied via the pancreaticoduodenal arcade and that the dorsal pancreatic artery arose from the superior mesenteric artery. In order to perform radical pancreatectomy with sufficient clearance of lymph nodes and soft tissues around the pancreas, the celiac arterial circulation was reconstructed. The restoration of flow was effected via a saphenous vein graft between the common hepatic artery and the aorta. Postoperative angiography demonstrated patency of the graft. The patient's postoperative course was uneventful.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aorta / surgery
  • Arterial Occlusive Diseases / complications
  • Arterial Occlusive Diseases / surgery*
  • Celiac Artery*
  • Duodenum / surgery*
  • Hepatic Artery / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pancreatectomy*
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / complications
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Saphenous Vein / transplantation
  • Vascular Patency