The challenges of improving survival following pancreatoduodenectomy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 385-386

  Shukla, Parul J ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPH NODE; MORBIDITY; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PERITONEAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE;

CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79961081838     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31822682b7     Document Type: Letter

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