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Gastric cancer perforations are rare events with management options ranging from lavage and perforation closure, to resection. Usual aim is to perform a damage control procedure, and very few patients are suitable for a curative resection. We report the first case of emergency gastrectomy with pancreatico-duodenectomy performed in emergency for a perforated stomach cancer with pancreatic head invasion. The patient was a 32-year-old gentleman who presented with a perforated antro-pyloric cancer with infiltration of pancreatic head. Emergency radical gastrectomy with en-bloc pancreatico-duodenectomy was performed with due considerations to the patient and disease factors. He had an uneventful postoperative recovery and remains disease free at 18 months of follow-up after having received adjuvant chemotherapy. Curative resections should be selectively offered in advanced (T4b) gastric cancers in patients without multiple adverse factors. In an emergency situation with perforation peritonitis, if the magnitude of resection is deemed unlikely to add to significant morbidity of the surgery, taking multiple factors into consideration, an R0 resection can offer a large survival benefit in such settings.
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a. Mufaddal Kazi: Design and writing of the manuscript
b. Manish Bhandare: Performed the surgery. Involved in design and review of the manuscript
c. Vikram Chaudhari: Critical review and final approval of the draft
d. Shailesh Shrikhande: Critical review and final approval of the draft
e. Sagar Kurankar: Involved in surgery and decision making.
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Kazi, M., Shrikhande, S.V., Chaudhari, V.A. et al. Emergency Radical Gastrectomy with Pancreatico-duodenectomy for a Recent Onset Perforation of Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer with Pancreatic Head Involvement—Exceptional but a Definite Option. Indian J Surg Oncol 11 (Suppl 2), 278–281 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13193-020-01189-1
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