According to Mergener, the Whipple procedure, also known as pancreatico-duodenectomy, is named after distinguished surgeon Allen Oldfather Whipple, who was born in Iran in 1881.

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Whipple eventually suspected it could be due to an infection (having noted rod-shaped organisms in the patient’s intestines), and in 1949 when the condition was further studied, it was named WD.

The primary surgery, called a Whipple procedure, is also more refined. "It's just a little bit of the stomach," he notes, adding, "A little bit of the gall bladder, a little bit of the pancreas ...

Pancreatic cancer begins in the pancreas, which is located behind the stomach. It is often difficult to detect early because symptoms typically appear only after the cancer has spread. As a result, it ...

Named for the American surgeon Allen O. Whipple, MD, who’s credited with popularizing the complex procedure in the 1930s, the Whipple procedure comes with a relatively high complication rate.

Surgery is the primary treatment for pancreatic cancer, and the Whipple procedure is the most common operation. It's done when the tumor is in the neck of the pancreas, and it is complicated.

Representing mortality rate after Whipple procedure over decades from 1950 to 2010. Data based on various references providing mortality rate after Whipple procedures performed in US hospitals ...