RT Journal
A1 Schnelldorfer T, Sarr MG
T1 ALessandro codivilla and the first pancreatoduodenectomy
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2009
FD December 21
VO 144
IS 12
SP 1179
OP 1184
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2009.219
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2009.219
AB 
In the field of pancreatic surgery, probably no operation has engendered more historic debate than the origin of the pancreatoduodenectomy, with the misleading and arguably inappropriate eponyms of the “Whipple” or the “Kausch-Whipple” procedure. The question of who performed the first pancreatoduodenectomy remains an intriguing one that has been debated from a nationalistic approach as well as a historic one, but data confirming these fervent arguments have often been missing; thus, we felt the need for clarification of the unrecorded but true story of the first pancreatoduodenectomy.