Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 204, Issue 2 , Pages 244-249 , February 2007

Radical Antegrade Modular Pancreatosplenectomy Procedure for Adenocarcinoma of the Body and Tail of the Pancreas: Ability to Obtain Negative Tangential Margins

Received 14 September 2006 ,Revised 6 November 2006 ,Accepted 7 November 2006.

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 Competing Interests Declared: None.

PII: S1072-7515(06)01654-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.11.002

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 204, Issue 2 , Pages 244-249 , February 2007

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