Bernhard W Renz, Philippe N Khalil, Michael Mikhailov, Sandra Graf, Tobias S Schiergens, Hanno Niess, Stefan Boeck, Volker Heinemann, Werner Hartwig, Jens Werner, Christiane J Bruns, Axel Kleespies
BACKGROUND: The increasing elderly population is an inevitable trend worldwide in developed countries. Therefore, we aimed to assess the experience of a tertiary pancreatic center with a very homogenous population comprising only patients diagnosed with PDAC of the pancreatic head in patients older than 75 years of age compared to their younger counterparts regarding the benefit in life expectancy and tumor biological aggressiveness. METHODS: 300 patients underwent partial pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) or pylorus preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy (PPPD) for PDAC of the pancreatic head between 2002 and 2012 and were evaluated with regard to their co-morbidities, clinicopathological and perioperative variables, postoperative morbidity, mortality and long term survival...
April 2016: International Journal of Surgery