Cancer Treatment Reviews
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Pancreaticoduodenectomy with or without pylorus preservation have similar outcomes: Abstracted from: Tran KTC, Smeenk HG, van Eijck CHJ, et al. Pylorus preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy versus standard Whipple procedure – a prospective, randomized, multicenter analysis of 170 patients with pancreatic and periampullary tumors. Ann Surg 2004;240:738–45.

  • Richard H. Bell Jr., MD (Loyal and Edith Davis Professor and Chair)

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  1. Whipple AO, Parsons WB, Mullins CR. Treatment of carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater. Ann Surg. 1935;102:763–779
  2. Whipple AO. Present day surgery of the pancreas. N Engl J Med. 1942;226:515–526
  3. Traverso LW, Longmire WP. Preservation of the pylorus in pancreaticoduodenectomy. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1978;146:959–962

☆ Sources of funding: Not stated.

☆☆ For correspondence: Hans Jeekel, MD, PhD, Department of General Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Dr Molewaterplein 40 3015 GD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: j.jeekel@erasmusmc.nl.

☆☆☆ Abstract provided by Bazian Ltd., London.

PII: S0305-7372(05)00077-0

doi: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2005.04.005

Cancer Treatment Reviews
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 328-331 , June 2005

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