SURGICAL-MANAGEMENT OF CARCINOMA OF THE MIDDLE AND DISTAL BILE-DUCT
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- Published online on: August 1, 1992 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.1.3.319
- Pages: 319-323
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Abstract
Forty patients underwent surgical resection for cancer of the middle and distal bile duct. Nineteen patients underwent a curative resection with 3- and 5-year survival rates of 63% and 48%, respectively. None of the patients who underwent a palliative resection survived two years. The factor most strongly associated with recurrence was the presence of tumor in the surgical margin. Recurrence was frequent in patients with disease in the middle portion of the bile duct who underwent extrahepatic biliary resection with choledochojejunostomy, while lower bile duct cancer was associated with peri-aortic or retroperitoneal recurrence. Pancreatoduodenectomy, with combined resection of the portal vein in middle bile duct cancer, regional lymphadenectomy, including peri-aortic lymph nodes and nerve plexus is required for curative resection of middle and distal biliary carcinoma beyond the early noninvasive stage.