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Surgical Treatment of Resectable and Borderline Resectable Pancreas Cancer: Expert Consensus Statement

  • CONSENSUS REPORT: RESECTABLE AND BORDERLINE RESECTABLE PANCREAS CANCER
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  1. Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Douglas B. Evans MD

  2. Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Michael B. Farnell MD

  3. Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Keith D. Lillemoe MD

  4. Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Charles Vollmer Jr MD

  5. Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Steven M. Strasberg MD

  6. Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Richard D. Schulick MD

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Proceedings of the Consensus Conference sponsored by the American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association and Cosponsored by The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, The Society of Surgical Oncology, The Gastrointestinal Symposium Steering Committee, and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center held in Orlando, FL, January 24, 2008.

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Evans, D.B., Farnell, M.B., Lillemoe, K.D. et al. Surgical Treatment of Resectable and Borderline Resectable Pancreas Cancer: Expert Consensus Statement. Ann Surg Oncol 16, 1736–1744 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-009-0416-6

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