Pancreatic and multiorgan resection with inferior vena cava reconstruction for retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma

BACKGROUND: Inferior vena cava (IVC) leiomyosarcoma is a rare tumor of smooth muscle origin. It is often large by the time of diagnosis and may involve adjacent organs. A margin-free resection may be curative, but the resection must involve the tumor en bloc with the affected segment of vena cava an...

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Main Authors: Stauffer, John A, Fakhre, G Peter, Dougherty, Marjorie K, Nakhleh, Raouf E, Maples, William J, Nguyen, Justin H
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630927/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19126222
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-3
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