title: [Carcinoma of the pancreatic head and periampular carcinomas. 10-year results of their resection management].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Parcial duodenopancreatectomy (DPE) remains the principal treatment method of carcinomas located in the region of the pancreatic head. Although several surgical clinics use this method, assessment of, mainly the long-term, treatment results is virtually absent in our literature.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Presentation of early and late results of the procedure collected in a clinic, managing the procedures with "medium frequency". The study is aimed at patients with histologically confirmed carcinomas of the pancreatic head.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective data from a group of patients who had undergone the DPE during the 10-year study in the Surgical Clinic of the IInd Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague-Motol, have been collected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From January 1995 to the end of 2004, 121 DPEs were completed, the 30-day mortality rate was 4.9% and the morbidity rate reached 17.5%. The long-term results were assessed in 71 cancer patients - the median survival rate was 18 months following the procedure (1-121 months), depending on the tumor type.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The collected results are similar to those presented by foreign clinics (but conducted with lower frequencies here) and fall within a European better average.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgicka klinika 2, LF a FN Praha-Motol.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leffler
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Poloucek
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Krejcí
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D014670:Ampulla of Vater; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D003138:Common Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016577:Pancreaticoduodenectomy