Abstract:
Object To summarize the feasibility and advantages of using radical surgery under laparoscopy in a patient with advanced biliary tract cancer underwent conversion therapy.
Methods A retrospective analysis of the clinical data about a patient underwent this novel procedure in the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Center of the Department of General Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medicine School of Nanjing University in Oct. 2022.
Results The patient with advanced biliary tract cancer underwent conversion therapy, whose tumor was successfully downstaged, and received radical surgery. Less intraoperative bleeding, no postoperative infection, bleeding, biliary fistula and so on. Tumor markers and related imaging examinations showed no abnormalities 2 months after surgery.
Conclusions It is expected to improve the long-term prognosis of patients with advanced biliary malignancies by applying the concept of conversion therapy combined with Laennec approach minimally invasive endoscopy to enhance the pathological remission rate and surgical resection rate.
Key words:
Biliary tract cancer,
Conversion therapy,
Anatomical hepatectomy,
Laennec approach
Ke Su, Yajuan Cao, Jin Peng, Laizhu Zhang, Decai Yu. Conversion therapy combined with laparoscopic radical hepatectomy in patient with advanced biliary tract cancer: Laennec approach[J]. Chinese Journal of Laparoscopic Surgery(Electronic Edition), 2023, 16(01): 49-51.