Question 129 · LEK · Pancreatic cancer
Which of the following is the best option of surgical palliative treatment in the case of a non-resectable tumor of the head of the pancreas that causes mechanical jaundice and duodenal obstruction?
- A. bypass anastomoses: gastric-intestinal, intestinal-intestinal and ductal- or bladder-intestinal.
- B. cholecystostomy.
- C. nutritional gastrostomy.
- D. attempt of non-radical tumor resection.
- E. diagnostic laparotomy only.
Hint
Good palliation should solve both problems at once: the blocked bile flow and the blocked gastric outlet.
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