Long-term survival after resection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with para-aortic lymph node metastasis: case report

Pancreatic cancer patients with para-aortic lymph node metastasis have a poor prognosis and patients living longer than 3 years are rare. We had a patient with pancreatic cancer who survived for more than 10 years after removal of the para-aortic lymph node metastasis. A 57-year-old woman was diagno...

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Main Authors: Masui, Toshihiko, Kubota, Toyonari, Aoki, Keiko, Nakanishi, Yasutaka, Miyamoto, Takumi, Nagata, Junko, Morino, Koshiro, Fukugaki, Atsushi, Takamura, Michio, Sugimoto, Shinichi, Onuma, Hideyuki, Tokuka, Atsuo
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3751482/