Preoperative evaluation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with synchronous liver metastasis: Diagnosis and assessment of unresectability

Figure 1 Trends in the occurrence of unexpected liver metastases identified during surgeries and implementation of the simultaneous resections among all cases across the study period.

Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier survival curves of PDAC patients with synchronous liver metastasis who underwent simultaneous resections for primary PDAC and synchronous liver metastasis (group A) and palliative surgical bypass (group B) and PDAC patients with no distant metastases who underwent curative resection for primary PDAC alone (group C).

Figure 3 Kaplan-Meier survival curves according to post-operative CA125 levels of PDAC patients with synchronous liver metastasis who underwent simultaneous resections for primary PDAC and synchronous liver metastasis (group A).