Nishio K, Kimura K, Murata A, Ohira G, Shinkawa H, Kodai S, Amano R, Tanaka S, Shimizu S, Takemura S, Kanazawa A, Kubo S, Ishizawa T. Comparison of clinicopathological characteristics between resected ampullary carcinoma and carcinoma of the second portion of the duodenum. World J Gastrointest Surg 2022; 14(11): 1219-1229 [PMID: 36504514 DOI: 10.4240/wjgs.v14.i11.1219]
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Kenjiro Kimura, Doctor, MD, PhD, Doctor, Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 5458585, Japan. v21873r@omu.ac.jp
Research Domain of This Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Article-Type of This Article
Retrospective Cohort Study
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Kohei Nishio, Kenjiro Kimura, Go Ohira, Hiroji Shinkawa, Ryosuke Amano, Shogo Tanaka, Shigekazu Takemura, Shoji Kubo, Takeaki Ishizawa, Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka 5458585, Japan
Akihiro Murata, Shintaro Kodai, Sadatoshi Shimizu, Akishige Kanazawa, Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka 5340021, Japan
Author contributions: Nishio K designed the study and wrote the draft of the article. Kimura K and Kubo S contributed to interpretation of the data and the critical revision of the article content. All the other authors (Murata A, Ohira G, Shinkawa H, Kodai S, Amano R, Takemura S, Shimizu S, Kanazawa A and Ishizawa A) contributed to the data collection and interpretation and critically reviewed the article; All the authors have read and agreed to the article.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Ethics Committees of Osaka City University (approval No. 2020-198) and Osaka City General Hospital (approval No. 1910076) and was performed in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Informed consent statement: All patients provided informed consent for using their data in this study according to the institutional regulations of the study sites.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare that they have no competing interests related to the manuscript.
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Received: July 22, 2022 Peer-review started: July 22, 2022 First decision: September 26, 2022 Revised: October 10, 2022 Accepted: October 19, 2022 Article in press: October 19, 2022 Published online: November 27, 2022 Processing time: 126 Days and 2.1 Hours
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background
Few studies have compared the oncological and biological characteristics between ampullary carcinoma (AC) and cancer of the second portion of the duodenum (DC-II), although both tumors arise from anatomically close locations.
Research motivation
The lymph node metastasis (LNM) patterns and the optimal range of lymph node dissection in DC-II and AC remain controversial.
Research objectives
The present study aimed to elucidate differences in clinicopathological characteristics, especially the patterns of LNM, between AC and DC-II.
Research methods
This was a retrospective cohort study of 80 patients with AC and 27 patients with DC-II who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy between January 1998 and December 2018 in two institutions. Clinicopathological factors, LNM patterns, and prognosis were compared between the two groups.
Research results
The rate of preoperative biliary drainage was significantly higher and the rates of digestive symptoms, ulcerative-type cancer, large tumor diameter, and advanced tumor stage were significantly lower in patients with AC than DC-II. There were no significant differences in prognosis, recurrence, and lymph node metastasis rates between the two groups, although hepatic and pyloric lymph node metastases were more frequent in DC-II than in AC.
Research conclusions
Although there were no significant differences in the prognosis and recurrence rates between the two groups, metastases to N-He and N-Py were more frequent in patients with DC-II than in those with AC.
Research perspectives
Lymph node dissection to N-He and N-Py may be omitted for AC, that is unlikely for DC-II.
