Vascular resection in pancreaticoduodenectomy: Is it worthwhile?

Current Drug Targets

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 772-780

  Bianco, Francesco ^a   Sassaroli, Cinzia ^a   Delrio, Paolo ^a   de Franciscis, Silvia ^a   Romano, Giovanni ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pancreatic cancer; Pancreaticoduodenectomy; Superior mesenteric artery; Superior mesenteric vein; Vascular involvement; Vessel resection

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; VASCULAR SURGERY;

HUMANS; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MESENTERIC VEINS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PORTAL VEIN; SPLENIC VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84860796402     PISSN: 13894501     EISSN: 18735592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138945012800564121     Document Type: Review

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