Treatment of tumors of the pancreatic head with suspected but unproved malignancy: Is a nihilistic approach justified?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 158-163

  Böttger, Thomas C ^a   Junginger, Theo ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PANCREATICOJEJUNOSTOMY; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPULLA OF VATER; CA-19-9 ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344959434     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013168     Document Type: Article

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