[Multivisceral and extended resection in pancreatic cancer]

Out of 303 pancreatoduodenectomies performed for carcinoma in the past 19 years, 100 patients required a multivisceral or (in 39 cases) a regional pancreatectomy. Although the operative and hospital mortality for these extended resections was only 2%, long-term survival (only 1 patient survived more than 5 years) was inferior to conventional radical pancreatoduodenectomy with a 25% 5-year survival rate.