The efficacy of preoperative nutritional assessment for palliative biliary and gastrointestinal bypass of unresectable pancreatic cancer

Background: A substantial number of patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer eventually develop biliary or gastric outlet obstruction. [...]the patients of advanced pancreatic cancer are often coexistent with malnutrition.

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Published in:	Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.] Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. S99 - S100
Main Authors:	Tsuchiya, Masaru, Washizawa, Naohiro, Maeda, Tetsuya, Ishii, Jun, Katagiri, Toshio, Kubota, Yoshihisa, Koda, Takamaru, Nagashima, Yasuo, Matsumoto, Yu, Imamura, Shigeki, Otsuka, Yuichiro, Kaneko, Hironori
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia Elsevier B.V 01-08-2016 Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	Endocrinology & Metabolism Gastroenterology and Hepatology Gastrointestinal surgery Heart surgery Medical prognosis Mortality Multivariate analysis Pancreatic cancer
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Summary:	Background: A substantial number of patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer eventually develop biliary or gastric outlet obstruction. [...]the patients of advanced pancreatic cancer are often coexistent with malnutrition.
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ISSN:	1424-3903 1424-3911
DOI:	10.1016/j.pan.2016.06.357