Postoperative Pancreatic Biliary Surgical Complications

Abstract

This review tries to trace the diagnosis and management of complications after surgery of biliary tract and pancreas that emergency care physicians can encounter. These specific complications, relevant after hospital discharge, have a wide range of incidence, from the lowest one following simple cholecystectomy to the highest one after difficult re-hepatectomies, transplants or pancreatic cancer resections. Although we separate those complications as they come from biliary tract or pancreatic surgery, many of them are shared since several surgical procedures involve more than one of these anatomical areas at the same time.