Background Surgical resection is the only potentially curative treatment for pancreatic and
periampullary cancer. A considerable proportion of patients undergo unnecessary …

Only 20% of patients who present with pancreatic cancer will be amenable to potentially
curative resection. Therefore, it is necessary to reliably identify patients who might benefit …

Summary Background Data Staging laparoscopy has been used in a variety of
peripancreatic and biliary malignancies. The utility of the technique in subsets of these types …

In the absence of metastatic disease patients with localized or locally advanced pancreatic
cancer can benefit from surgical resection or chemoradiation. Despite the advances of …

Abstract Treatment options for patients with gastric cancer (GC) are based on tumor staging
and resectability. Although only surgery provides improved survival, resection is …

In this study, we evaluated and compared the value of spiral computed tomography,
transabdominal ultrasonography, laparoscopy, and laparoscopic ultrasonography in staging …

Background Cancer of the pancreas is a common disease, but the large majority of patients
have tumours that are irresectable at the time of diagnosis. Moreover, patients whose …

Jacobaeus, 1 who first used the term laparoscopy in 1911, pointed out the enormous
diagnostic implications of this technique, indicating that by using a laparoscope, diagnoses …

Background Preoperative imaging is often inadequate in excluding unresectable pancreatic
cancer. Accordingly, many groups employ staging laparoscopy (SL), although none have …

Background. The reported incidence of noncurative laparotomies for pancreatic cancer
using standard imaging (SI) techniques for staging remains high. The objectives of this study …