G J Ridder1, J Klempnauer. 1. Clinic for Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Back pain is a frequent and often ominous clinical sign in patients with ductal pancreatic cancer. METHODS: From 1971 to 1993 a pancreatic carcinoma could be resected in 192 patients, whereas 261 patients underwent either probatory laparotomy alone or palliative bypass procedures. In a retrospective study including uni- and multi-variate survival analysis we have determined the impact of preoperative back pain on both resectability and long-term prognosis after resection. RESULTS: Among the presenting symptoms of patients with ductal pancreatic cancer back pain was a predictive sign of irresectability. In the presence of preoperative back pain the long-term prognosis after resection of the tumour was also significantly impaired. In a multivariate analysis it could be demonstrated that the prognostic impact of back pain was as strong as the influence of residual tumour, tumour grading, and tumour size. CONCLUSIONS: Back pain often indicates irresectability of ductal pancreatic carcinoma and also impairs the long-term prognosis even after curative resection.
BACKGROUND:Back pain is a frequent and often ominous clinical sign in patients with ductal pancreatic cancer. METHODS: From 1971 to 1993 a pancreatic carcinoma could be resected in 192 patients, whereas 261 patients underwent either probatory laparotomy alone or palliative bypass procedures. In a retrospective study including uni- and multi-variate survival analysis we have determined the impact of preoperative back pain on both resectability and long-term prognosis after resection. RESULTS: Among the presenting symptoms of patients with ductal pancreatic cancer back pain was a predictive sign of irresectability. In the presence of preoperative back pain the long-term prognosis after resection of the tumour was also significantly impaired. In a multivariate analysis it could be demonstrated that the prognostic impact of back pain was as strong as the influence of residual tumour, tumour grading, and tumour size. CONCLUSIONS:Back pain often indicates irresectability of ductal pancreatic carcinoma and also impairs the long-term prognosis even after curative resection.
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