Oncologic risk in pylorus preservation in resection of ductal pancreas carcinoma

Gerdes, B.; Ramaswamy, A.; Bartsch, D.; Rothmund, M.

Langenbecks Archiv für Chirurgie. Supplement. Kongressband. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie. Kongress 114: 1087-1089

1997


ISSN/ISBN: 0942-2854
PMID: 9574341
Document Number: 482528
We detected peripyloric lymph node metastasis in 2 of 24 patients with ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas who underwent Kausch-Whipple's procedure. The resection would have been palliative if these patients were treated by pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy.

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