No-touch isolation technique in emergency pancreaticoduodenectomy for neoplastic hemorrhage: Two case reports and review of literature.

BACKGROUND: Emergency pancreaticoduodenectomy (EPD) is a rare event for complex periampullary etiology. Increased intraoperative blood loss is correlated with poor postoperative outcomes. CASE SUMMARY: Two patients underwent EPD using a no-touch isolation technique, in which all arteries supplying the pancreatic head region were ligated and divided before manipulation of the pancreatic head and duodenum. The operative times were 220 and 239 min, and the blood loss was 70 and 270 g, respectively. The patients were discharged on the 14th and 10th postoperative day, respectively. Thirty-two patients underwent EPD for the treatment of neoplastic bleeding. The mean operative time was 361.6 min, and the mean blood loss was 747.3 g. The complication rate was 37.5%. The in-hospital mortality rate was 9.38%. CONCLUSION: The no-touch isolation technique is feasible, safe, and effective for reducing intraoperative blood loss in EPD.

[A case of advanced rectal cancer with multiple liver metastases successfully treated by perioperative administration of UFT and oral leucovorin].

The patient was a sixty-five-year-old man who had an advanced rectal cancer (Ra, type 2) with liver metastases. Low anterior resection with lymphnode dissection (D3) was done, but hepatectomy was not performed because of the multiple metastases besides the five tumors detected preoperatively. The pathological finding was moderately-differentiated adenocarcinoma. He was treated with 5-FU via the hepatic artery, but the therapy failed due to catheter infection after 3 postoperative months. Then, he received general 5-FU/l-LV therapy intravenously from 3 to 8 months after the operation, and oral UFT/LV (Uzel®) from 9 to 22 months. Next, we switched to single UFT therapy at 23 months because CT findings showed remarkable calcification in the liver metastases. But only one tumor of the liver (S6) among liver metastases enlarged at 27 months. We switched the chemotherapy again to UFT/Uzel and mFOLFOX6, but decided to perform hepatectomy of S6/7 at 39 months since it proved ineffective. The pathological finding was 90% necrosis and calcification of the tumor. Metastasis of the right 10th rib was newly found and was removed at 63 months after the first operation. Now, NC in the liver is continued 67 months after the first operation, and the patient is doing well.