A city hospital has successfully performed 'laparoscopic whipple surgery with portal vein resection' on a 73-year-old man from North India,suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer Claimed to be the ...

Background: Prior studies have demonstrated the poor prognostic significance of positive peritoneal cytology in pancreatic cancer surgery. It has not been determined what significance positive ...

Shaymaa Abed Saadoon, 39, hailing from Baghdad, Iraq was diagnosed to have cancer head of the pancreas. At Iraq, she was planned for Whipple procedure; however, at surgery, the tumour was found to be ...

Pancreatic duodenal resection (Whipple's Sea Surgery), which removes tumors from the head of the pancreas, is a high-level surgical method because the technique is very complex and the scope of ...

What is a Whipple’s Procedure? A pancreatico-duodenectomy, commonly referred to as a Whipple’s procedure, is a complex surgery in which the main portion of the pancreas (the “head”) is removed along ...

If staging reveals that the tumor can be removed by local resection, surgery is the preferred treatment option for otherwise healthy patients without metastases. Tumors of the pancreatic head and the ...

THE results of surgical treatment of carcinoma of the head of the pancreas are disappointing. Only about 10 per cent of patients operated upon are considered candidates for removal of the neoplasm. 1 ...

Background Surgery remains the only curative option for the treatment of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The goal of this study was to investigate the clinical outcome and prognostic factors in ...

This History Maker article was written by the coauthors in collaboration with Dr. John Cameron and is based on several detailed discussions with Dr. Cameron. The paper focuses on Dr. Cameron's ...

PUNE: In a path-breaking minimally invasive surgery, doctors at the Lokmanya Hospital in Nigdi have successfully operated upon a 50-year old patient, diagnosed with cancer in the pancreas. PUNE: In a ...

PUNE: In a path-breaking surgery, doctors at the Lokmanya hospital in Nigdi have successfully operated upon a 50-year-old patient, diagnosed with cancer in the pancreas, with minimal invasive ...