American surgeon Allen Whipple developed an improved version of this surgery in 1935, and it is often referred to today as the Whipple procedure.

The Whipple procedure is the common name for a pancreaticoduodenectomy, an operation that removes the head of the pancreas along with nearby structures such as part of the small intestine. Allen Whipple developed an improved version of this surgery in 1935, so pancreaticoduodenectomy is the correct choice.

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