文摘
Patients with pancreatic cancer and positive peritoneal cytology as a sole metastatic site form a unique subset of this disease. In our institutional experience, such patients are not associated with long-term disease-free survival, even when chemoradiation is used. However, these patients do display improved overall survival compared with our institutional cohort of patients with gross metastatic disease. Laparoscopic evaluation for cytology is an important staging tool for all patients with localized pancreatic cancer.