Guidelines for the management of biliary tract and ampullary carcinomas: Surgical treatment

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-54

  Kondo, Satoshi ^a   Takada, Tadahiro ^b   Miyazaki, Masaru ^c   Miyakawa, Shuichi ^d   Tsukada, Kazuhiro ^e   Nagino, Masato ^f   Furuse, Junji ^g   Saito, Hiroya ^h   Tsuyuguchi, Toshio ^c   Yamamoto, Masakazu ⁱ   Kayahara, Masato ^j   Kimura, Fumio ^c   Yoshitomi, Hideyuki ^c   Nozawa, Satoshi ^c   Yoshida, Masahiro ^b   Wada, Keita ^b   Hirano, Satoshi ^a   Amano, Hodaka ^b   Miura, Fumihiko ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^h Asahikawa Kosei Hospital   (Japan)

ⁱ TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Ampulla of Vater; Bileduct neoplasms; Biliary tract neoplasms; Gallbladder neoplasms; Guidelines; Surgery

Indexed keywords

INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; VATER PAPILLA CARCINOMA;

AMPULLA OF VATER; BILIARY TRACT; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; BILIARY TRACT SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARCINOMA; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 39549099924     PISSN: 09441166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-007-1279-5     Document Type: Article

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