Whipple pancreaticoduodenectomy: a historical comment

Specialty: Landmark Case Report

Article Type: Case Report

DOI: 10.1102/1470-5206.2007.L0001

Vol 7

pages L1-L2

Whipple pancreaticoduodenectomy: a historical comment

Adrian O'Sullivan

Correspondence Address: Adrian O'Sullivan, HPB Unit, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB, UK.

Email: awmos@btinternet.com

Allen Oldfather Whipple is a name that will be forever eponymously associated with pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer. This paper presents the history behind this procedure.

Keywords Pancreaticoduodenectomy; Whipple; history

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Whipple Original Article from 1945

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