Role of Surgery in theManagement of Cancer of Body and Tail of Pancreas
published by Damascus University
in 2009
in Medicine
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
Evaluation of the management of cancer in the body and tail of
the pancreas with determining the role of surgery in the management of
these tumors.
The study was performed retrospectively. It included all patients
who were admitted in Al Assad University Hospital in Damascus between
2003 and 2008 in the diagnosis of cancer in the body or tail of the pancreas.
The data were collected by reviewing the hospital files, radiological reports,
and surgical reports of these patients.
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