Liver & Pancreas Surgery
About
A comprehensive program
For patients suffering from conditions that affect the liver, pancreas, gallbladder, duodenum, or bile ducts, the Liver and Pancreas Surgeons of The Oregon Clinic have developed a comprehensive program for the treatment of these diseases.
Experience in treating serious conditions
Our surgeons have extensive experience with open surgical procedures and use them when required. We are proud to have pioneered the use of laparoscopic techniques in treating liver and pancreas diseases, including liver resection, radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors, as well as minimally invasive pancreatic surgery. We have broad experience and perform a large number of complex procedures. This experience helps make treating these conditions easier and safer for patients.
Team
Leaders in their field
Experience
As a nationally-recognized and high-volume center, with fellowship-trained surgeons, we have the experience to deliver optimal results and achieve the best outcomes. A list of our publications and national presentations can be seen here.
Committed to Education
Our surgeons actively participate in national and international liver and pancreas specialty societies and are members of national committees with leadership roles in research, education, and training. Each year, they are recruited to teach educational programs on a national level in minimally invasive liver and pancreas surgery techniques and intraoperative ultrasound. Our Liver and Pancreas Surgical Fellowship program is one of about 20 accredited advanced training programs focused on liver and pancreas surgery in the country.
Coordination of Care
We work with primary care physicians to coordinate all aspects of a patient’s care. Our team prides itself on being available at any time to patients and doctors with questions or concerns. Communication with the patient and his or her care team is essential to achieve optimal outcomes, so prompt letters and phone calls to referring physicians are a priority to us.
Multi-Disciplinary Team
Our surgeons are part of a team of highly-skilled specialists at our center including medical and radiation oncologists, gastroenterologists, and diagnostic and interventional radiologists. We meet on a weekly basis with the interdisciplinary group to review cases and guide management for patients with complex diseases of the liver, bile duct, and pancreas.
Ease of Access
Consultations can most often be scheduled within a week of calling our office. Urgent consultations are available at any time by calling our main number: (503) 281-0561.
Advanced Techniques
Our state-of-the-art therapies ensure that our patients will receive the most advanced care.
Meet Our Providers:
- Liver and Pancreas Surgery
- Gallbladder
- Bile Duct Diseases
- Colon Cancer
- Gastrointestinal Cancers
- Liver, Pancreas, Bile Duct & Gallbladder Cancer
- Benign Disease of the Liver, Pancreas, Bile Ducts & Gallbladder
- Metastatic Colon Cancer
- Gastrointestinal Cancer
- Robotic & Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Liver, Pancreas, Bile Duct & Gallbladder Cancer
- Gastrointestinal Cancers
- Benign Disease of the Liver, Pancreas, Bile Duct & Gallbladder
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
Conditions & Procedures
Minimally invasive and open surgical therapies
Our board-certified surgeons perform a wide range of non-surgical, minimally invasive and open surgical therapies to treat a variety of disorders of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and bile ducts, including the following:
- Gallstones
- Gallbladder cancer
- Bile duct cancer
- Bile duct strictures and cysts
- Liver cancer
- Liver tumors and cysts
- Pancreas cancer
- Pancreas tumors and cysts
- Pancreatitis and its complications
- Neuroendocrine tumors
- Duodenal cancer and polyps
- Ampullary cancer
Health Info
In the News:
Publications & Research:
- Neoadjuvant radiation therapy and its impact on complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer: analysis of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP).
- Isolated Avulsion of the Common Hepatic Duct from Blunt Abdominal Trauma.
- Poor level of agreement on the management of postoperative pancreatic fistula: results of an international survey.
- Outcomes following laparoscopic choledochoduodenostomy in the management of benign biliary obstruction.
- Surgical management of breast cancer liver metastases.
- Consensus statement on the adoption of the COPE guidelines.
- Computed tomography (CT)-guided versus laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation: a single-institution comparison of morbidity rates and hospital costs.
- Surgeon volume versus morbidity and cost in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy in an academic community medical center.
- Emergent pancreaticoduodenectomy for Dieulafoy lesion of the duodenum.
- Laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation for the management of colorectal liver metastases: 10-year experience.
- Complications nearly double the cost of care after pancreaticoduodenectomy.
- Outcomes following laparoscopic choledochoduodenostomy in the management of benign biliary obstruction.
- Hepatic resection vs minimally invasive radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of colorectal liver metastases: a Markov analysis.
- Randomized controlled trial comparing single-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy and four-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
- Outcome after laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation of technically resectable colorectal liver metastases.
- Surgical treatment of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: outcomes and predictive factors.
- Hemostasis after liver resection improves after single application of albumin and argon beam coagulation.
- Wnt-pathway activation in two molecular classes of hepatocellular carcinoma and experimental modulation by sorafenib.