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Ikoma N, Karahashi T, Wray CJ, Takei H, Hosoda Y. Ultrasound-guided Intraoperative Transduodenal Pancreatic Head Biopsy: A Safe and Effective Procedure to Exclude Malignancy in Obstructive Jaundice Patients: Technical Note. Am Surg 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/000313481307901208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Naruhiko Ikoma
- Department of Surgery University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Houston, Texas
- Department of Surgery Saitama Social Insurance Hospital Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Surgery University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Houston, Texas
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- Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine The Methodist Hospital Houston, Texas
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- Department of Surgery Saitama Social Insurance Hospital Saitama, Japan
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Chen J, Jiang K, Wu J, Gao W, Li Q, Guo F, Wei J, Lu Z, Tu M, Xi C, Dai C, Miao Y. Application of intraoperative transluminal core-biopsy for diagnosis of pancreatic head mass: A single center 15-year experience. Pancreatology 2018; 18:68-72. [PMID: 29173872 DOI: 10.1016/j.pan.2017.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2017] [Revised: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 09/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Pathology is the gold standard for diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Preoperative endoscopic ultrasound-guided biopsy is an expensive procedure that is not routine in developing countries, hence a cheap, reliable alternative is required. AIM To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a new technique of intraoperative biopsy from pancreatic head mass. METHODS Patients undergoing intraoperative transluminal core-biopsy (TLCB) for pancreatic head mass from January 2000 to June 2015 were included in this study. Following Kocher's maneuver, a biopsy was taken from the mass through the duodenum transluminally, using a commercial 16G automatic core-biopsy needle. Multiple tissue specimens were obtained for intraoperative frozen section examination. Depending on the pathological results, a decision was taken to either perform pancreaticoduodenectomy, duodenum-preserving pancreatic head resection, bypass surgery, or to just terminate the operation. The malignancy status of the lesion was confirmed by postoperative pathological examination and/or long-term follow-up of the patients. RESULTS A total of 525 patients were included. Intraoperative pathological reports revealed 436 malignant cases and 89 cases without evidence of malignancy. The sensitivity, specificity, false positive rate, and false negative rate were 97.7%, 100%, 0%, and 2.3%, respectively. Complications occurred in 2 patients. CONCLUSION TLCB is a quick, safe, effective, and accurate method for intraoperative diagnosis method in patients with pancreatic head mass; it can provide reliable evidence for surgical decision-making.
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- Jianmin Chen
- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China.
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- Pancreas Center, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China.
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Pancreatic head excavation for tissue diagnosis may reduce unnecessary pancreaticoduodenectomies in the setting of chronic pancreatitis. Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int 2017; 16:315-322. [PMID: 28603101 DOI: 10.1016/s1499-3872(17)60015-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND The necessity to obtain a tissue diagnosis of cancer prior to pancreatic surgery still remains an open debate. In fact, a non-negligible percentage of patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) for suspected cancer has a benign lesion at final histology. We describe an approach for patients with diagnostic uncertainty between cancer and chronic pancreatitis, with the aim of minimizing the incidence of PD for suspicious malignancy finally diagnosed as benign disease. METHODS Eighty-eight patients (85.4%) with a clinicoradiological picture highly suggestive for malignancy received formal PD (group 1). Fifteen patients (14.6%) in whom preoperative diagnosis was uncertain between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis underwent pancreatic head excavation (PHEX) for intraoperative tissue diagnosis (group 2): those diagnosed as having cancer received PD, whereas those with chronic pancreatitis received pancreaticojejunostomy (PJ). RESULTS No patient received PD for benign disease. All patients in group 1 had adenocarcinoma on final histology. Eight patients of group 2 (53.3%) received PD after intraoperative diagnosis of cancer, whereas 7 (46.7%) received PJ because no malignancy was found at introperative frozen sections. No signs of cancer were encountered in patients receiving PHEX and PJ after a median follow-up of 42 months. Overall survival did not differ between patients receiving PD for cancer in the group 1 and those receiving PD for cancer after PHEX in the group 2 (P=0.509). CONCLUSION Although the described technique has been used in a very selected group of patients, our results suggest that PHEX for tissue diagnosis may reduce rates of unnecessary PD, when the preoperative diagnosis is uncertain between cancer and chronic pancreatitis.
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Dietrich CF, Jenssen C. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided sampling in gastroenterology: European society of gastrointestinal endoscopy technical guidelines. Endosc Ultrasound 2014; 2:117-22. [PMID: 24949378 PMCID: PMC4062259 DOI: 10.7178/eus.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2013] [Accepted: 07/10/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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At present, the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) guidelines on endoscopic ultrasound-guided sampling are almost complete and express state of the art developments. However, future developments are anticipated. This editorial focuses on a few recently published papers with some additional information and on two important additional techniques, elastography and contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), which are mentioned, but not explained in detail in the current ESGE guidelines. Elastography and CEUS might be of importance in the near future to improve the biopsy techniques.
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- Klinik für Innere Medizin, Krankenhaus Märkisch Oderland Strausberg/Wriezen, Germany
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Asbun HJ, Conlon K, Fernandez-Cruz L, Friess H, Shrikhande SV, Adham M, Bassi C, Bockhorn M, Büchler M, Charnley RM, Dervenis C, Fingerhutt A, Gouma DJ, Hartwig W, Imrie C, Izbicki JR, Lillemoe KD, Milicevic M, Montorsi M, Neoptolemos JP, Sandberg AA, Sarr M, Vollmer C, Yeo CJ, Traverso LW. When to perform a pancreatoduodenectomy in the absence of positive histology? A consensus statement by the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery. Surgery 2014; 155:887-92. [PMID: 24661765 DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2013.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2013] [Accepted: 12/27/2013] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) provides the best chance for cure in the treatment of patients with localized pancreatic head cancer. In patients with a suspected, clinically resectable pancreatic head malignancy, the need for histologic confirmation before proceeding with PD has not historically been required, but remains controversial. METHODS An international panel of pancreatic surgeons working in well-known, high-volume centers reviewed the literature and worked together to establish a consensus on when to perform a PD in the absence of positive histology. RESULTS The incidence of benign disease after PD for a presumed malignancy is 5-13%. Diagnosis by endoscopic cholangiopancreatography brushings and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration are highly specific, but poorly sensitive. Aspiration biopsy guided by endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) has greater sensitivity, but it is highly operator dependent and increases expense. The incidence of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) in the benign resected specimens is 30-43%. EUS-guided Trucut biopsy, serum levels of immunoglobulin G4, and HISORt (Histology, Imaging, Serology, Other organ involvement, and Response to therapy) are used for diagnosis. If AIP is suspected but not confirmed, the response to a short course of steroids is helpful for diagnosis. CONCLUSION In the presence of a solid mass suspicious for malignancy, consensus was reached that biopsy proof is not required before proceeding with resection. Confirmation of malignancy, however, is mandatory for patients with borderline resectable disease to be treated with neoadjuvant therapy before exploration for resection. When a diagnosis of AIP is highly suspected, a biopsy is recommended, and a short course of steroid treatment should be considered if the biopsy does not reveal features suspicious for malignancy.
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- Horacio J Asbun
- Department of General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
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- Professorial Surgical Unit, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Surgery, Clinic Hospital of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Surgery, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Hopital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France
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- Department of Surgery and Oncology, Pancreas Institute, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of General-, Visceral- and Thoracic-Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of HPB & Transplant Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Digestive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal, Poissy, France
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- Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Acacdemic Unit of Surgery, Univesity of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of General-, Visceral- and Thoracic-Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- First Surgical Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of General Surgery, Instituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Liverpool Cancer Research-UK Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Surgery, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Penn Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Surgery, Jefferson Pancreas, Biliary and Related Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
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Blouhos K, Boulas KA, Tselios DG, Katsaouni SP, Mauroeidi B, Hatzigeorgiadis A. Surgically proved visually isoattenuating pancreatic adenocarcinoma undetected in both dynamic CT and MRI. Was blind pancreaticoduodenectomy justified? Int J Surg Case Rep 2013; 4:466-9. [PMID: 23562894 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2013.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2012] [Revised: 02/03/2013] [Accepted: 02/13/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Visually isoattenuating pancreatic adenocarcinoma is defined as a mass not directly visible on CT and recognizable only by secondary imaging signs. The frequency of isoattenuating pancreatic adenocarcinomas at dynamic-enhanced CT has been reported to range from 5.4% to 14%. Furthermore, 80% of the visually isoattenuating pancreatic adenocarcinomas are detectable in dynamic-enhanced MRI. Consequently, a pancreatic adenocarcinoma undetected in both the above imaging studies is an exceptionally rare event. PRESENTATION OF CASE The present report describes a case of a histologically proved 3.5cm pancreatic adenocarcinoma undetected in both dynamic-enhanced CT and MRI. The patient presented with progressive jaundice over the preceding 20 days. Initial abdominal CT showed a dilated pancreatic and common bile duct without demonstration of a lesion responsible for the clinical and imaging findings. Additional diagnostic work-up with dynamic CT and dynamic MRI failed to reveal a definitive mass. ERCP revealed an irregular interruption of the pancreatic and distal common bile duct with upstream dilation. Blind radical pancreaticoduodenectomy was performed. Histologic examination showed a pT3pN1MO pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the head/neck. DISCUSSION Isoattenuating pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients represent a small but meaningful subset of patients with pancreatic cancer, as they have better survival. The more favorable postsurgical survival makes it even more imperative to correctly diagnose their cases at early stages by obtaining further diagnostic work-up with dynamic pancreatic CT, dynamic MRI and endoscopic ultrasound. CONCLUSION When the above studies fail to unmask the lesion, blind pancreaticoduodenectomy should be based on strong clinical suspicion and secondary imaging findings.
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Double Duct to Mucosa Pancreaticojejunostomy for Bifid Pancreatic Duct following Pylorus Preserving Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A Case Report. Case Rep Med 2012; 2012:657071. [PMID: 23251180 PMCID: PMC3521419 DOI: 10.1155/2012/657071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2012] [Accepted: 11/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Bifid pancreatic duct represents a relatively rare anatomical variation of the pancreatic ductal system, in which the main pancreatic duct is bifurcated along its length. This paper describes the challenging surgical management of a 68-year-old male patient, with presumptive diagnosis of periampullary malignancy who underwent a successful double duct to mucosa pancreaticojejunostomy for bifid pancreatic duct. Following pylorus preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy, careful intraoperative inspection of the cut surface of the residual dorsal pancreas identified the main in addition to the secondary pancreatic duct orifice. Bifid duct anatomy was confirmed via intraoperative probing and direct visualization of the ductal orifices. A decision was made for the performance of an end-to-site double duct to mucosa pancreaticojejunostomy. Postoperative outcome was favorable without any complications. Although bifid pancreatic duct is relatively rare, pancreatic surgeons should be aware of this anatomical variation and be familiar with the surgical techniques for its successful management. Lack of knowledge and surgical expertise for dealing with this anatomical variant may lead to serious, life threatening postoperative complications following pancreatic resections.
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