Surgical palliation for pancreatic cancer: developments during the past two decades

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 8-20

  Watanapa, P ^a   Williamson, R C N ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JAUNDICE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION, EXTRAHEPATIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DUODENAL DISEASES; HUMAN; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; STENTS;

EID: 0026593282     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800790105     Document Type: Review

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