Palliative Chemical Splanchnicectomy

Role of Surgical Treatment in Pancreatic Carcinoma

“…Duodenal obstruction is an unusual complication of pancreatic carci noma and occurs in less than 5% of patients at initial examination [12,13]. This corre lates very well with the incidence of gastroen terostomy in our institution (6%).…”

Development of a laparoscopic approach to neurolytic celiac plexus block in a porcine model

“…However, afferent pain pathway blockade at the level of the celiac plexus for palliation of pain associated with pancreatic cancer was not reported until 1969 by Copping et al [8]. Various methods of NCPB have since been described [4,7,9,14,15,19,21].…”

Pancreatic cancer pain: impact and management challenges

“…This was performed by way of thoracotomy and included concomitant sympathectomy. 9,10 The thoracoscopic approach was first described in 1993 in the British Journal of Surgery.…”