Therapeutic Neurotomy on Head of Pancreas for Relief of Pain Due to Chronic Pancreatitis

Abstract

Introduction Mallet-Guy and his co-workers^1,2performed, in 1942, left unilateral splanchnicectomy in a case of chronic relapsing pancreatitis for the first time in the world. He has now come to the opinion, from clinical and experimental studies, that the operation is not only a palliative procedure for interruption of the pain pathway from