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At present operative treatment of pancreas gives the the great postoperative mortality rate and postoperative complications. This is due to the operative trauma of pancreatic tissue which gives rise to the acute postoperative pancreatitis and pancreonecrosis with further complications and to the development of specific postoperative purulent complications in the stump margin.
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Brechov, E.I., Litvin, G.D., Kirpitchov, A.G., Kalinnikov, V.V., Severtsev, A.N. (1988). Laser Scalpel in Pancreatic Surgery. In: Waidelich, W., Waidelich, R. (eds) LASER Optoelectronics in Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72870-9_44
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