Palliative Interventional and Surgical Therapy for Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer

Palliative Interventional and Surgical Therapy for Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer

Palliative treatment concepts are considered in patients with non-curatively resectable and/or metastasized pancreatic cancer. However, patients without metastases, but presented with marginally resectable or locally non-resectable tumors should not be treated by a palliative therapeutic approach. T...

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Main Authors: Helmut Friess, Norbert Hüser, Christoph Michalski, Jorg Kleeff, Sonja Gillen, Volker Assfalg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-02-01
Series:Cancers
Subjects:
pancreatic cancer
palliative pancreatic surgery
neoadjuvant therapy
duodenal obstruction
jaundice
prophylactic gastroenterostomy
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/3/1/652/

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