The concept of ‘borderline resectable’ pancreatic cancer: limited foundations and limited future?
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Borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.
Rigorous criteria to define "borderline resectable" pancreatic cancer are required for appropriate patient accrual into clinical trials that examine the utility of chemotherapy and/or chemoradiation that will be delivered prior to pancreatic resection for exocrine cancer. At our institution, tumor abutment of less than or equal to 180 degrees (< or = 50% of the vessel circumference) of the supe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2078-6891,2219-679X
DOI: 10.21037/jgo.2016.12.06