Staging Laparoscopy for Pancreatic Cancer Should Be Used to Select the Best Means of Palliation and Not only to Maximize the Resectability Rate

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 111-118

  Luque De León, Enrique ^b   Tsiotos, Gregory G ^b   Balsiger, Bruno ^b   Barnwell, John ^b   Burgart, Larry J ^a   Sarr, Michael G ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Palliation; Pancreatic cancer; Staging laparoscopy; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PERITONEUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033085348     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(99)80018-3     Document Type: Article

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