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Dot.gif (172 bytes) Evans DB, Abbruzzese JL, Rich TA. Cancer of the pancreas. DeVita VT, Hellman S, Rosenberg SA, eds. Cancer, Principles and Practice of Oncology, Fifth Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1997;1054-1087.

Dot.gif (172 bytes) Evans DB, Lee JE, Pisters PWT. Pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple Operation) and total pancreatectomy for cancer. In Nyhus LM, Baker RJ, Fischer JF eds. Mastery of Surgery, Third Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1997, 1233-1249.

Dot.gif (172 bytes) Davidson BS, Lee JE, Pisters PWT, Ames FC, Evans DB. Teaching complex surgery: a standardized approach to pancreaticoduodenectomy. Surgical Rounds 1995;18:450-457.

Dot.gif (172 bytes) Lowy AM, Lee JE, Pisters PWT, Davidson BS, Fenolglio CJ., Stanford P, Jinnah R, Evans, D. Prospective, Randomized Trial of Octreotide to Prevent Pancreatic Fistula After Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Malignant Disease. Annals of Surgery, 1997;226(5), 632-641.

Dot.gif (172 bytes) Spitz FR, Abbruzzese JL, Lee JE, Pisters PWT, Lowy AM, Fenoglio CJ, Cleary KR, Janjan NA, Goswitz MS, Rich TX, Evans DB. Preoperative and postoperative chemoradiation strategies in patients treated with pancreaticoduodenectomy for adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. J Clin Oncol 1997;15:928-937.

Dot.gif (172 bytes) Staley CA, Lee JE, Cleary KR, et al. Preoperative chemoradiation, pancreaticoduodenectomy, and intraoperative radiation therapy for adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Am J Surg 1996;171:118-125.

Dot.gif (172 bytes)Pisters PWT, Abbruzzese JL, Janjan NA, Cleary KR, Charnsangavej C, Goswitz MS, Rich TA, Raijman I, Wolff RA, Lenzi R, Lee JE, Evans D. Rapid-fractionation preoperative chemoradiation, pancreaticoduodenectomy, and intraoperative radiation therapy for resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma. In press: Human Mutation.

Dot.gif (172 bytes)Leach SD, Lee JE, Charnsangavej C, Cleary KR, Lowy AM, Fenoglio CJ, Pisters PWT, Evans DB. Survival following pancreaticoduodenectomy with resection of the superior mesenteric-portal vein confluence for adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Brit J Surg 1998;85:611-617.

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