Alessandro Coppola, Vincenzo La Vaccara, Tommaso Farolfi, Horacio J Asbun, Ugo Boggi, Kevin Conlon, Bjørn Edwin, Cristina Ferrone, Eduard Jonas, Norihiro Kokudo, Elena Martin Perez, Sohei Satoi, Ernesto Sparrelid, John Stauffer, Alessandro Zerbi, Nobuyuki Takemura, Quirino Lai, Tariq Almerey, Marc Bernon, Roberto Cammarata, Yasmine Djoumi, Tom Gallagher, Poya Ghorbani, Michael Ginesini, Daisuke Hashimoto, Emanuele F Kauffmann, Dyre Kleive, Núria Lluís, Rocio Maqueda González, Niccolò Napoli, Gennaro Nappo, Martina Nebbia, Simone Ricchitelli, Mushegh A Sahakyan, Tomohisa Yamamoto, Roberto Coppola, Damiano Caputo
INTRODUCTION: Lymph-nodal involvement (N+) represents an adverse prognostic factor after pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) for pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Preoperative diagnostic and staging modalities lack sensitivity for identifying N+. This study aimed to investigate preoperative CA19.9 in predicting the N+ stage in resectable-PDAC (R-PDAC). METHODS: Patients included in a multi-institutional retrospective database of PDs performed for R-PDAC from January 2000 to June 2021 were analyzed...
September 22, 2023: International Journal of Surgery