Impact of pancreatic head tumor size on the outcome of surgical management
Islam I. Ayoub,
Taysseer A.E. Talab,
Hazem Omar
et al.
Abstract:Background and objectives
Tumor size has been identified as a critical prognostic factor after pancreatic adenocarcinoma resection; however, this is still up for debate. The authors aimed to investigate the relationship between size and the results of pancreatic cancer resection.
Patients and methods
The studied subjects were divided into two groups as follows: group A: included 69 patients with pancreatic head/uncinate process tumor ≤3 cm in size (maxi… Show more
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