Pancreatoduodenectomy with colon-last approach for advanced pancreatic head cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Margin-negative surgery is very important in surgical oncology. Considering margin-negative pancreatectomy is known to be essential for cure of the pancreatic cancer, pancreatoduodenectomy with combined venous vascular or arterial resection can be a potential option for margin-negative resection, especially, in era of neoadjuvant treatment with potent systemic chemotherapy. To the contrary, special attention was not paid on combined colonic resection during PD. In this article, safe surgical technique for PD with combined colonic resection is introduced, under the name of PD with "colon-last" approach.

Methods

At Severance Hospital (Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea), between 2014 and 2021, a total of six patients underwent PD with "colo

SUBMITTER: Kim JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11261178 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature