Preoperative Biliary Drainage in Cases of Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Surgery

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Representative computed tomography images of borderline resectable pancreatic cancer and locally advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer. (a), (b) Tumor in the pancreatic head slightly abutting the portal vein and invading less than half of the circumference of the superior mesenteric artery (borderline resectable pancreatic cancer). (c), (d) Tumor in the pancreatic head invading less than half the circumference of the superior mesenteric artery (locally advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer).

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