title: [Laparoscopic surgery for pancreatic cancer].
abstract: Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy is currently in widespread use because of its technical simplicity, although laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy is practiced in only a limited number of surgical institutions due to the associated technical difficulties especially at reconstruction. The indication for the treatment of pancreatic cancer by a laparoscopic procedure remains controversial. Because pancreatic cancer is already advanced at the time of diagnosis in many cases, it requires a difficult radical operation in terms of lymphadenectomy with nerves plexus in laparoscopic surgery. The oncologic clearance of pancreatic resection may be achievable by laparoscopic surgery, although longer follow-up and larger series of treatment are still needed.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgery Omori, Toho University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Otsuka
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsuchiya
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ishii
authors.forename: Toshio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katagiri
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Yoshihisa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: Hironori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kaneko
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D010180:Pancreatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*