Abstract
We have noted a continued increase in the number of patients referred to our institution for presumed or biopsy-proven periampullary carcinoma following an "exploratory" laparotomy during which tumor resection was not performed. Although previous work has demonstrated the safety of reoperative pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), the need to avoid nontherapeutic laparotomy in these patients is obvious. In the current study, we sought to determine why PD was not performed at the initial operation. Using the prospective pancreatic cancer database, we identified all patients who underwent reoperative PD at our institution between June 1990 and October 1995. Radiologic imaging prior to reoperation was standardized and based on thin-section, contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT); helical CT was used in more recent cases. Pathologic data were obtained, and initial outside operative reports were reviewed to determine why a PD was not performed at the initial procedure. Twenty-nine patients underwent reoperative PD. Resection was not performed at the initial laparotomy because of the surgeon's assessment of local unresectability (17 patients), lack of a tissue diagnosis of malignancy (9), misdiagnoses (2), and error in intraoperative man...Continue Reading
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