The impact of peritoneal lavage cytology in biliary tract cancer (KHBO1701): Kansai Hepato-Biliary Oncology Group.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Only few studies in literature have analyzed the clinical effects of peritoneal lavage status in biliary tract cancers.

Aim

We aimed to assess the effect of cytology-positive peritoneal lavage on survival for patients with biliary tract cancer who underwent curative resection.

Methods

The KHBO1701 study was a multi-institutional retrospective study that assessed the clinical effects of peritoneal lavage cytology in biliary tract cancers. Using clinicopathological data from 11 Japanese institutions, we compared long-term outcomes between patients with cytology-positive and cytology-negative peritoneal lavage.

Results

Of 169 patients who underwent curative resection, 164 were cytology-negative, and five were cytology-positive. The incidence of portal i

SUBMITTER: Matsukuma S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8451372 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature