Optimal surgical procedure for duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumours
Friday, June 25, 2010 - 06:56
in Health & Medicine
Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumours of the digestive tract. However, the duodenal location is less common. Nowadays, surgery is still the only curative approach for GIST. Numerous procedures can be performed to remove duodenal GIST. Some of these operations are extensive and require difficult reconstruction (like pancreaticoduodenectomy; PD). One of the options is a more limited intervention: segmental duodenectomy (SD). However, few studies have correlated the different surgical options with the oncological results...