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Background: Hepatectomies have been increasingly recommended and performed in Brazil; they present great differences related to immediate complications. Aim: Assessing the immediate postoperative complications in a series of 88 open liver resections. Method: Prospective database of patients subjected to consecutive hepatectomies over nine years. The post-hepatectomy complications were categorized according to the Clavien-Dindo classification; complications presenting grade equal to or greater than 3 were considered major complications. Hepatic resections involving three or more resected liver segments were considered major hepatectomies. Results: Eighty-four patients were subjected to 88 hepatectomies, mostly were minor liver resections (50 cases, 56.8%). Most patients had malignant diseases (63 cases; 71.6%). The mean hospitalization time was 10.9 days (4-43). Overall morbidity and mortality rates were 37.5% and 6.8%, respectively. The two most common immediate general complications were intra-peritoneal collections (12.5%) and pleural effusion (12.5%). Bleeding, biliary fistula and liver failure were identified in 6.8%, 4.5% and 1.1% of the cases, respectively, among the hepatectomy-specific complications. Conclusion: The patients operated in the second half of the series showed better results, which were apparently influenced by the increased surgical expertise, by the modification of the hepatic parenchyma section method and by the increased organ preservation.

RACIONAL: O tumor sólido pseudopapilar do pâncreas tem sido recentemente considerado menos raro que quando de sua descrição original por Frantz, em 1959. Novos casos têm sido descritos nos últimos anos despertando o interesse pela neoplasia. OBJETIVOS: Estudar aspectos clínicos, histopatológicos, terapêuticos e de prognóstico em casuística uni-institucional. PACIENTES E MÉTODOS: Quatro casos com tumor de Frantz foram avaliados no período de dezembro de 2000 a fevereiro de 2003. RESULTADOS: Três dos quatro casos eram de adolescente do sexo feminino. Sintomas dispépticos e massa palpável representaram a manifestação inicial. O local preferencial do tumor foi a cabeça pancreática (75%) e o tratamento cirúrgico foi a enucleação (um caso), duodenopancreatectomia (dois casos) e a pancreatectomia corpo-caudal (um caso). Em todos os casos foi possível a ressecção completa da lesão com margens livres. Em dois pacientes o exame microscópico revelou presença de invasão venosa. Foi realizado estudo imunoistoquímico em três casos. Com um seguimento médio de 15 meses, não havia sido descrita recurrência do tumor em nenhum dos casos. CONCLUSÃO: Com exceção da localização preferencial do tumor na cabeça pancreática (75%), os demais achados clínicos, histopatológicos, imunoistoquímicos e terapêuticos foram compatíveis com publicações prévias. O pequeno seguimento pós-operatório impossibilita conclusões sobre o prognóstico dos pacientes estudados.

Background: The value of drain amylase on the first postoperative day after pancreatic resections has been described as an efficient predictor of pancreatic fistula. In spite of this, the cut-off point below which the drains can be removed early remains controversial. Aim: Validate the use of the amylase on the 1st postoperative day in the correlation with pancreatic fistula and define the value at which early drain removal is safe. Method: Were included patients undergoing Whipple surgery in the period of 2007 to 2016. Group 1 enrolled the ones who did not develop fistula and those who developed biochemical fistula for less than seven days postoperatively and group 2 included patients who developed persistent biochemical fistula between seven and 21 days and those with grade B and C fistula. Results: Sixty-one patients were included, 41 comprised group 1 and 20 group 2. The incidence of abdominal collections, need for reoperation and time of hospitalization were for group 1 and 2, respectively: 17.1%, 17.1% and 9.5 days, and 65%, 40% and 21.1 days. The median of the amylase from the drain at 1st postoperative day was in group 1 and 2, respectively: 175 U/l and 3172.5 U/l (p=0.001). Using a cut-off of 180 to predict the group to which the patient would belong there was obtained sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of 100%, 48.8%, 50% and 100% respectively. Conclusion: It was validated the cut-off value of 180 U/l as appropriate to early drain removal.

There is a need for the national publications to assimilate the concepts and criteria presented by the ISGFP(2) and ISGPS(23,25) to enable comparison of the results obtained with surgical treatment of pancreatic disorders, in the Brazilian context. Who knows, therefore, whether the great advanced seen in the last 40 years in terms of the reduction in mortality rates associated with pancreatic resections may also occur with the persistently high levels of postoperative complications.