Langenbecks Arch Surg (2003) 388:101–106

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Table 1. Characteristics of patients who underwent a radical distal pancreatectomy with celiac artery resection for locally advanced cancer of the body of the pancreas. This procedure usually includes distal pancreatectomy and en bloc resection of the celiac axis, common hepatic and left gastric arteries, the celiac plexus and ganglia, a part of the crus of the diaphragm and Gerota's fascia, the left adrenal gland, and the retroperitoneal soft tissue containing para-aortic lymph nodes (CA celiac axis, LGA left gastric artery, SA splenic artery, CHA common hepatic artery, GDA gastroduodenal artery, PHA proper hepatic artery, R0 no residual tumor, DOD died of recurrent disease, DOO died of other cause, AFD alive, free of disease)