Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 5 , Pages 869-881 , November 2009

Prognostic implications of tumor invasion or adhesion to peripancreatic vessels in resected pancreatic cancer

  • Ugo Boggi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Chirurgia Generale e Trapianti nell'Uremico e nel Diabetico, Pisa, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Ugo Boggi, MD, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Divisione di Chirurgia Generale e Trapianti nell'Uremico e nel Diabetico, Dipartimento di Oncologia, Divsione di Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale di Cisanello Via Paradisa 2, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
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  • Marco Del Chiaro, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Chirurgia Generale e Trapianti nell'Uremico e nel Diabetico, Pisa, Italy
    • ,
  • Chiara Croce, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Chirurgia Generale e Trapianti nell'Uremico e nel Diabetico, Pisa, Italy
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  • Fabio Vistoli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Chirurgia Generale e Trapianti nell'Uremico e nel Diabetico, Pisa, Italy
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  • Stefano Signori, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Chirurgia Generale e Trapianti nell'Uremico e nel Diabetico, Pisa, Italy
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  • Carlo Moretto, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Chirurgia Generale e Trapianti nell'Uremico e nel Diabetico, Pisa, Italy
    • ,
  • Gabriella Amorese, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Pisa, Italy
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  • Salvatore Mazzeo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Radiologia Diagnostica e Interventistica, Pisa, Italy
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  • Carla Cappelli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Radiologia Diagnostica e Interventistica, Pisa, Italy
    • ,
  • Daniela Campani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Anatomia Patologica Sperimentale, Pisa, Italy
    • ,
  • Franco Mosca, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Chirurgia Generale 1 Universitaria, Pisa, Italy

,Accepted 4 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.04.029

Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 5 , Pages 869-881 , November 2009

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