title: Distal pancreatectomy and portal vein resection without vascular reconstruction for endocrine tumors with massive intraportal growth: report of a case.
abstract: Pancreatic endocrine tumors (PETs) are relatively rare. Owing to their slow growing characteristics, an aggressive surgical approach has been considered to improve patients' survival. A case of PET with portal vein (PV) thrombus, successfully treated by distal pancreatectomy with concomitant PV resection and removal of PV tumor thrombus, preserving collateral pathways, is reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan. tsuchi-t@med.hokudai.ac.jp
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsuchikawa
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hirano
authors.forename: Eiichi
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Ryousuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kawasaki
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Joe
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shichinohe
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010180:Pancreatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000601:surgery*; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed