Ampulla of Vater

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Aberrant expression of p53, p21, cyclin D1, and Bcl2 and their clinicopathological correlation in ampullary adenocarcinoma. 
  • Carcinoid of the ampulla of Vater presenting as acute pancreatitis. 
  • Carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater: patterns of failure following resection and benefit of chemoradiotherapy. 
  • Clinical utility of positron emission tomography in the diagnosis and management of periampullary neoplasms. 
  • Clinicopathologic features and prognosis of duodenal adenocarcinoma and comparison with ampullary and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. 
  • Collision tumour of the ampulla of Vater: carcinoid and adenocarcinoma. 
  • Complications of pancreaticoduodenectomy after neoadjuvant chemoradiation in patients with and without preoperative biliary drainage. 
  • Cystic duct patency in malignant obstructive jaundice. An ERCP-based study relevant to the role of laparoscopic cholecystojejunostomy. 
  • Development of an integrated biospecimen bank and multidisciplinary clinical database for pancreatic cancer. 
  • Endoscopic versus surgical ampullectomy: an algorithm to treat disease of the ampulla of Vater. 
  • Indications for and the technique of local resection of tumors of the papilla of Vater. 
  • Local ampullary resection with careful intraoperative frozen section evaluation for presumed benign ampullary neoplasms. 
  • Malignant biliary obstruction: efficacy of thin-section dynamic CT in determining resectability. 
  • Metastatic ampullary adenocarcinoma presenting as a hydrocele: a case report. 
  • Non-Whipple Operations in the Management of Benign, Premalignant and Early Cancerous Duodenal Lesions. 
  • Pathologic grade and tumor size are associated with recurrence-free survival in patients with duodenal neuroendocrine tumors. 
  • Patterns of failure after pancreaticoduodenectomy for ampullary carcinoma. 
  • Phase II study of capecitabine and oxaliplatin for advanced adenocarcinoma of the small bowel and ampulla of Vater. 
  • Photodynamic therapy for malignant tumours of the ampulla of Vater. 
  • Preoperative chemoradiation for patients with pancreatic cancer: toxicity of endobiliary stents. 
  • Preoperative imaging for resectable periampullary cancer: clinicopathologic implications of reported radiographic findings. 
  • Prognostic indicators following curative pancreatoduodenectomy for pancreatic carcinoma: A retrospective multivariate analysis of a single centre experience. 
  • Pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy. A clinical and physiologic appraisal. 
  • Radical pancreatoduodenectomy for cancer of the papilla of Vater. 
  • Technique of intraluminal biliary ultrasonography during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. 
  • The expression of PTEN is associated with improved prognosis in patients with ampullary adenocarcinoma after pancreaticoduodenectomy. 
  • The management of tumors of the ampulla of Vater by local resection. 
  • The role of laparoscopy in the management of suspected pancreatic and periampullary malignancies. 
  • Three synchronous, sporadic and separate periampullary and pancreatic tumors: more than a coincidence? 
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  Keywords of People

  • McCall, Shannon Jones, Associate Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Uronis, Hope Elizabeth, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Oncology
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Oncology