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  1. Jason W Boland
  1. Senior Clinical Lecturer And Honorary Consultant In Palliative Medicine Hull York Medical School, University Of Hull, UK

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2014-000656

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    Complications and survival associated with operative procedures in patients with unresectable pancreatic head adenocarcinoma

    ▸ Spanheimer PM, Cyr AR, Liao J, et al. J Surg Oncol Published Online First: 7 Jan 2014. doi:10.1002/jso.23560.

    In a retrospective chart review study, from 1997 to 2013 in a US hospital, 50 patients with adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head who underwent surgical exploration with curative intent but who did not undergo pancreatectomy were evaluated (these account for about 20% of patients taken for resection). They were unresectable due to metastatic disease or due to vascular invasion. Sixty-eight per cent of these patients had …

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    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.