Yasuhiro Yabushita, Joon Seong Park, Yoo-Seok Yoon, Masayuki Ohtsuka, Wooil Kwon, Gi Hong Choi, Masafumi Imamura, Ippei Matsumoto, Shugo Mizuno, Ryusei Matsuyama, Jun Sakata, Hiromitsu Hayashi, Yutaka Takeda, Satoshi Katagiri, Toshitaka Sugawara, Shogo Kobayashi, Yota Kawasaki, Hiroaki Nagano, Katsutoshi Murase, Hyung Sun Kim, Yang Won Nah, Jin-Young Jang, Hiroki Yamaue, Dong Sup Yoon, Masakazu Yamamoto, Dongho Choi, Masafumi Nakamura, Ki-Hun Kim, Itaru Endo
BACKGROUND: Although surgical resection is the only curative treatment for biliary tract cancer, in some cases, the disease is diagnosed as unresectable at initial presentation. There are few reports of conversion surgery after the initial treatment for unresectable locally advanced biliary tract cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of conversion surgery in patients with initially unresectable locally advanced biliary tract cancer. METHODS: We retrospectively collected clinical data from groups of patients in multiple centers belonging to the Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery...
May 31, 2024: Journal of Hepato-biliary-pancreatic Sciences