For those contemplating surgery

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Hi,

In the process of investigating my problem I ran into the following

article entitled: " operative treatment for chronic pancreatitis pain "

by H Jordan and Manos Pikoulis, in the Journal of American

College of Srugeons. volume 192, Issue 4, April 2001, Pages

498-509.

The link is:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL & _udi=B6

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5101 & _sort=d & _acct=C000049140 & _version=1 & _urlVersion=0

& _userid=950412 & md5=c64ee2ead1bac3acd8211817b9da556

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I am not sure if this is a site that is accessible to everyone or is

restricted, so no guarantee that you will get to it. But if you do, it is

a wonderful report on the 6 different surgical options available for

treating pancreatic pain. Talks about the procedures, the results

and discusses the implications of these data. If you are unable

to get to it and are interested, email me and I will see if I can

down load it to Word then attach it to an email.

I have printed it out in case I will need to refer to it for decision

making in the future.

Laurie