Cavernous transformation of the portal vein in pancreatic cancer surgery—venous bypass graft first

Background In recent years, several techniques have been introduced to allow safe oncologic resections of cancers of the pancreatic head. While resections of the mesenterico-portal axis became now a part of the routine treatment, patients with a cavernous transformation of the portal vein still pose a surgical challenge and are regularly deemed unresectable. Objective Here, we describe a technique of initial venous bypass graft placement between...