Bypass Surgery Versus Intentionally Incomplete Resection in Palliation of Pancreatic Cancer: Is Resection the Lesser Evil?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 829-835

  Tachezy, Michael ^a   Bockhorn, Maximilian ^a   Gebauer, Florian ^a   Vashist, Yogesh K ^a   Kaifi, Jussuf Thomas ^a   Izbicki, Jakob Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Incomplete resection; Palliation; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIOPANCREATIC DIVERSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955476241     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-011-1469-y     Document Type: Article

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