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ArticleNorth American journal of medical sciences2013

Laparoscopic staging and surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Thiruvengadam Muniraj, Pranav Barve

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Article in North American journal of medical sciences, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Diagnostic Laparoscopy Prior to Neoadjuvant Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer Is High Yield: an Analysis of Outcomes and Costs.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2017
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  11. Pure laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy with initial approach to the superior mesenteric artery.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2015
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  12. Minireview on laparoscopic hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery.World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Thiruvengadam MunirajSection of Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, CT, USA ; Department of Medicine, Griffin Hospital, CT, USA.
Pranav Barve

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic cancer is the tenth most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Surgery remains a cornerstone in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Unfortunately, the percentage of patients presenting at the resectable stage is minimal. Although computed tomography (CT) scan remains the best modality to stage the tumor for resectability, laparoscopy and laparoscopic ultrasound offers its own advantages. Extended lymphadenectomy, portal vein resection, and arterial reconstruction have also been explored in multiple studies to enhance staging. The traditional pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple's procedure) with regional lymphadenectomy is still the standard of care in the surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Indexed as

LaparoscopyPancreatic cancerStagingSurgery

Identifiers

PMID23378948
PMCPMC3560131

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