Radical surgery for pancreatic head carcinoma.

Gallbladder Carcinoma: Radical Surgery?

Palliative surgery for pancreatic carcinoma.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the role of palliative surgical treatment in patients with advanced pancreatic carcinoma. STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Surgical "D" Ward of Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, from January 2005 to January 2009. METHODOLOGY The study included patients with pancreatic carcinoma admitted with advanced, unresectable carcinoma of the pancreas. Pat...

Standard versus extended lymphadenectomy in radical surgical treatment for pancreatic head carcinoma.

PURPOSE The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the benefit of extended lymphadenectomy in pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) and to estimate its impact on long-term survival in patients with pancreatic head carcinoma. Secondary endpoints included perioperative mortality, postoperative morbidity and predictors of survival in patients undergoing standard versus extended lymphadenectomy for pancr...

Radical surgery: vascular and pancreatic resection for cholangiocarcinoma.

Recent progress in vascular surgical techniques has made it possible to combine liver and portal vein and/or hepatic artery (HA) or retrohepatic inferior vena cava (IVC) resection and reconstruction in cases of locally advanced cholangiocarcinoma. Reports of the success of this difficult surgery have been published. Aggressive Japanese surgeons have applied hepatopancreatoduodenectomy (HPD) not...

A hepatoid carcinoma of the pancreatic head

Hepatoid carcinoma (HC) is an extremely rare form of neoplasm. Its cellular structure resembles that of a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). To date, only 26 cases of hepatoid carcinoma of the pancreas have been reported in the literature. We report the diagnosis of a hepatoid carcinoma of the pancreatic head in a 78-year-old male patient. The tumor was detected incidentally during routine abdomin...