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Who Benefits from Portal Vein Resection during Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Pancreatic Cancer?

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Portal vein resection during pancreaticoduodenectomy has recently experienced renewed interest. We describe our results with this procedure over a 20-year period. Among 88 consecutive pancreatectomies for cancer of head of the pancreas, 14 included en bloc removal of the portal vein. There was no hospital mortality. Only 21% were found to have histologically confirmed cancer invasion, and the remainder had inflammatory adherence. Two-year survival was 15% compared to 34% for patients who did not have portal vein resection. There were no 5-year survivors. We discuss our results in light of other recent reports.

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  1. Department of Digestive Surgery and Hepatobiliary Unit, Centre Medico Chirurgical Saint-Vincent, and University of Rennes, Avenue Saint Vincent, B.P. 129, Saint Gregoire 35760, France, , , , , , FR

    Bernard Launois, Christian Stasik, Eustathios Bardaxoglou, Bernard Meunier, Jean Pierre Campion, Luigi Greco & Francis Sutherland

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Launois, B., Stasik, C., Bardaxoglou, E. et al. Who Benefits from Portal Vein Resection during Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Pancreatic Cancer?. World J. Surg. 23, 926–929 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002689900601

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