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Cancer of the Pancreas: Distal Resections and Staging of Pancreatic Cancer

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Laparoscopy for pancreatic cancer, either for staging initially or for resection as part of a treatment plan, has gained more and more acceptance in the surgical community over the past few years. Using laparoscopy and diagnosing extensive disease, we are able to spare far more patients an unnecessary laparotomy than we were in the past. This chapter describes workup, sheds some light on still controversial topics like port-site metastasis and palliation, and gives a step-by-step explanation of how to perform a partial pancreatic resection.

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  1. Division of Gastric and Mixed tumors, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Vivian E. Strong

  2. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Joshua Carson

  3. Division of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Peter J. Allen

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Strong, V.E., Carson, J., Allen, P.J. (2011). Cancer of the Pancreas: Distal Resections and Staging of Pancreatic Cancer. In: Matteotti, R., Ashley, S. (eds) Minimally Invasive Surgical Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45021-4_27

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