Background: Prior studies have demonstrated the poor prognostic significance of positive peritoneal cytology in pancreatic cancer surgery. It has not been determined what significance positive ...

The long-term survival of patients is dependent upon the complete macroscopic resection of the tumor (R0, R1). [53] Patients with grossly incomplete resections (R2) survive less than 1 year, [11,54,55 ...

THE results of surgical treatment of carcinoma of the head of the pancreas are disappointing. Only about 10 per cent of patients operated upon are considered candidates for removal of the neoplasm. 1 ...

Indications for pancreatic resection do not differ for laparoscopic or open surgery; whether a pancreatic resection can be performed laparoscopically depends on the surgeon's training and experience ...

Eight fellowship-trained pancreatobiliary surgeons performed 672 consecutive PDs between October 1993 and November 2008 in our department; the period of observation was 1993 to 2011. We excluded ...

This History Maker article was written by the coauthors in collaboration with Dr. John Cameron and is based on several detailed discussions with Dr. Cameron. The paper focuses on Dr. Cameron's ...

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PA) is characterised by early locoregional spread and distant metastasis. As a result, most of the patients are unresectable at the time of diagnosis. Without treatment, ...