“…Until 2009, more than 146 laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomies (Lap PD) [8], 800 Lap DPs [2], and 101 tumor enucleations (Lap EN) [9] were performed worldwide. Moreover, laparoscopic approaches were also applied in many other aspects, including explorative laparoscopy for cancer staging [10], diagnostic laparoscopic biopsy, external and internal pancreatic drainage [11,12], and laparoscopic necrosectomy [13][14][15]. Of these applications, Lap DP was initially the fastest developed because of its relative technical simplicity.…”