Para-aortic lymph node metastases in pancreatic cancer should not be considered a watershed for curative resection

Abstract No international consensus regarding the resection of the para-aortic lymph node (PALN) station Ln16b1 during pancreatoduodenectomy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has been reached. The present retrospectively investigated 264 patients with PDAC who underwent curative pancreatod...

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Main Authors: Sebastian Hempel, Verena Plodeck, Franz Mierke, Marius Distler, Daniela E. Aust, Hans-Detlev Saeger, Jürgen Weitz, Thilo Welsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08165-w