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Marginal ulceration is a serious problem after both standard pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) and pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy (PPPD). The relationship between this complication and the method of reconstruction after PPPD was analyzed in this study. Patients who underwent standard PD (n = 72) or PPPD (n = 28) in the 20-year period from 1978 to 1997 were retrospectively reviewed. After PPPD, 4 patients (14.3%) developed marginal ulceration on the jejunal side of the duodenojejunal anastomosis, while none of the patients had marginal ulceration after standard PD. The marginal ulcer occurred in 3 of 14 patients treated with the Roux-en-Y method, and in 1 of 9 treated with pancreatogastrostomy. In the Roux-en-Y method, the anal jejunal loop anastomosed to the bulb was directly exposed to gastric juice without neutralization by pancreatic juice from the oral jejunal limb. Of the 4 patients with marginal ulceration, 2 of those treated by the Roux-en-Y method required gastrectomy; the other 2 patients were treated medically. Our analysis of the literature showed that the Roux-en-Y method had the highest incidence of marginal ulcerations. The gastrointestinal reconstruction method without a mixture of gastric juice and pancreatic juice may be a causal factor in the marginal ulceration that occurs after PPPD. In reconstruction after PPPD, we should not create a jejunal loop that is exposed to gastric juice alone.
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Received for publication on July 26, 1999; accepted on Sept. 6, 1999
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Sakaguchi, T., Nakamura, S., Suzuki, S. et al. Marginal ulceration after pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy. J Hep Bil Pancr Surg 7, 193–197 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005340050175
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s005340050175