Prognostic Significance of Intraoperative Peritoneal Lavage Cytology in Patients with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Single-Center Experience and Systematic Review of the Literature.
Shoji KawakatsuYasuhiro ShimizuSeiji NatsumeMasataka OkunoSeiji ItoKoji KomoriTetsuya AbeKazunari MisawaYuichi ItoTakashi KinoshitaEiji HigakiHironori FujiedaYusuke SatoAkira OuchiMasato NaginoKazuo HaraKeitaro MatsuoWaki HosodaPublished in: Annals of surgical oncology (2022)
Resection did not improve the prognosis of patients with positive PLC status in our cohort. The institutional positive PLC rate may be a good reference for surgical indication in these patients.