Guidelines for the management of biliary tract and ampullary carcinomas: surgical treatment.

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Published in J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg on February 16, 2008

Authors

Satoshi Kondo1, Tadahiro Takada, Masaru Miyazaki, Shuichi Miyakawa, Kazuhiro Tsukada, Masato Nagino, Junji Furuse, Hiroya Saito, Toshio Tsuyuguchi, Masakazu Yamamoto, Masato Kayahara, Fumio Kimura, Hideyuki Yoshitomi, Satoshi Nozawa, Masahiro Yoshida, Keita Wada, Satoshi Hirano, Hodaka Amano, Fumihiko Miura, Japanese Association of Biliary Surgery, Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Japan Society of Clinical Oncology

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgical Oncology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.

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