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Clinicopathologic factors influencing survival of patients with bile duct carcinoma: Multivariate statistical analysis

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To evaluate the influence of various clinicopathologic factors on survival, a computer analysis was performed on 70 patients who underwent resection for bile duct carcinoma. Univariate analysis of overall survival involving all the patients identified 10 factors that were associated with a significant outcome: location of primary lesion (p=0.01), pancreatic invasion (p=0.004), duodenal invasion (p=0.005), macroscopic and microscopic vascular involvement (tp=0.009 andp=0.04), perineural invasion (p=0.02), lymphatic vessel involvement (p=0.04), lymph node metastasis (p=0.02), histologictype (p=0.02), and depth of cancer invasion (p=0.04). However, when the interactive effects of these factors were taken into account, the pancreatic invasion and perineural invasion were selected as the two most significant prognostic factors in a multivariate analysis using the Cox stepwise proportional hazards model. The age, sex, size of the tumor, macroscopic type of lesions, hepatic infiltration, serosal invasion, resected surgical margin at the proximal and distal ends, exposed surgical margin, peritoneal dissemination, and hepatic metastasis were not significantly associated with prognosis.

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Afin d'évaluer l'influence de facteurs clinicopathologiques sur la survie, on a analysé les résultats observés chez 70 patients ayant un cancer des voies biliaires. L'analyse monofactorielle a permis d'identifier 10 facteurs pronostiques influençant la survie: site de la tumeur primitive (p=0.01), envahissement du pancréas (p=0.005), envahissement du duodénum (p=0.005), envahissement vasculaire macro ou microscopique (p=0.009 et p=0.04, respectivement), envahissement périneural (p= 0.02), envahissement lymphatique (p=0.04), envahissement ganglionnaire (p=0.02), le type histologique (p=0.02) et la profondeur de l'envahissement (p=0.04). Par l'analyse multifactorielle selon la méthode pas à pas de Cox, les deux facteurs ayant la valeur pronostique la plus importante étaient l'envahissement pancréatique et périneural. Le sexe et l'âge du patient, la taille et l'aspect macroscopique de la tumeur, l'infiltration hépatique, l'envahissement de la séreuse, la marge de sécurité de la résection ainsi que les disséminations péritonéale et hépatique n'influencaient pas significativement le pronostic.

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Con el propósito de evaluar el impacto de los diferentes factores clinicopatológicos sobre la supervivencia, se realizó un análisis computadorizado en 70 pacientes sometidos a resección por carcinoma de la vía biliar. El análisis univariable de la supervivencia global aplicado a la totalidad de los pacientes identificó diez factores asociados con un desenlace significativo: la ubicación de la lesión primaria (P=0.01), la invasión pancreática (P=0.05), la invasión duodenal (P=0.005), la invasión vascular tanto macroscópica como microscópica (P=0.009 y P =0.04), la invasión périneural (P=0.02), la invasión de vasos linfáticos (P=0.04), las metastasis a los ganglios linfáticos (P=0.02), el tipo histológico (P=0.02) y la profundidad de la invasión cancerosa (P=0.04). Sin embargo, al tomar en cuenta el efecto interactivo de tales factores, se seleccionaron la invasión pancreática y la invasión périneural como los dos principales factores de pronóstico en un análisis multivariable utilizando el modelo de Cox de riesgos proporcionales escalonados. En tanto que la edad, sexo, tamaño del tumor, tipo macroscópico de la lesión, infiltración hepática, invasión de la serosa, márgenes de resección, diseminación peritoneal y metastasis hepáticas no resultaron asociadas con el pronóstico en forma significativa.

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Bhuiya, M.M.R., Nimura, Y., Kamiya, J. et al. Clinicopathologic factors influencing survival of patients with bile duct carcinoma: Multivariate statistical analysis. World J. Surg. 17, 653–657 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01659134

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