title: [Gastroenterostomy "par principe" or "de nécessité" in palliative therapy of pancreatic cancer?].
abstract: There has been a controversy for years concerning the value of the prophylactic gastroenterostomy (GE) in patients suffering from irresectable pancreatic cancer. A retrospective analysis of the patients undergoing palliative bypass-operations for pancreatic cancer at Zurich University Hospital between 1982 and 1990 revealed 53 patients (28 male, 25 female) with an average age of 68 years. Twenty-one patients received a double bypass, 18 received a hepaticojejunostomy, 12 a primary and 2 a secondary GE. Mortality and morbidity for double bypass were 14% and 33%, for hepaticojejunostomy 5% and 28% and for primary GE 25% and 50%. Secondary GE was associated with a mortality and morbidity of 1 of 2 cases. Two patients received a secondary GE and two more showed signs of duodenal obstruction amounting to 20% incidence for secondary duodenal obstruction. Delayed gastric emptying was observed in only 2 patients with primary GE. These data suggest the use of a prophylactic double bypass.
authors.affiliation: Departement Chirurgie, Universitätsspital Zürich.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Röthlin
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Schöb
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weder
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Buchmann
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Largiadèr
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000713:Anastomosis, Roux-en-Y; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005763:Gastroenterostomy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate