title: [Study of surgical procedures of abdominal organ cluster transplantation].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the surgical procedures and therapeutic effect of organ cluster transplantation in treating abdominal multiple organ malignant tumors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two patients with abdominal multiple organ malignant tumors received organ cluster transplantation in May and August 2004. The excised specimen included liver, pancreas, duodenum, stomach, spleen, mesenteric and epigastric lymph nodes. The transplanted organs included liver, pancreas, duodenum. Superior mesenteric artery was involved in the malignancy in one case and was transected and anastomosed to right common iliac artery.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patients waked up 4 and 5 hours post operation and began recovering 3 and 5 days after. Dynamic examinations showed that the functions of grafted liver, pancreas and duodenum obtained normal function in 10 days post the transplantation. One patient survived for 12 months postoperatively and died of recurrence of cancer; The other recovered uneventfully after transplantation, and discharged automatically 20 days after.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Abdominal organ cluster transplantation is technically feasible and effective for patients with abdominal multiple organ malignant tumors.
authors.affiliation: Organ Transplantation Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. zxf111@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Xiao-feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Xiao-shun
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: An-bin
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Dong-ping
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Guo-dong
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shi-kun
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Wei-qiang
authors.initials: WQ
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.forename: Lin-wei
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Tai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004386:Duodenum / Q000637:transplantation*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016035:Pancreas Transplantation; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting; D016896:Treatment Outcome