Tag: whipple

  • Robotic Whipple performed in the midwest

    UIC News Release A surgical team led by Dr. Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, chief of the division of minimally invasive, general and robotic surgery at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, has performed the first fully robotic Whipple procedure in the Midwest. The operation, also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy, is the most common surgical treatment…