Table 12.
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients in the two retrospective studies and two case report papers involving two subjects with groove adenocarcinoma (continues from Table 11)
| Author[Ref.] yr | Surgery | Associated chronic pancreatitis | Pseudocyst | Follow-up | |
| No. of cases | Type | ||||
| Suehara et al[20] 1998 | Yes | PD | No | No | NR |
| Gabata et al[30] 2003 | 9 (100%) | PD in 7; derivative in 2 | No | No | NR |
| Tan et al[38] 2006 | Yes | By-pass surgery | No | No | NR |
| Ishigami et al[6] 2010 | 6 (85.7%) | PD in 5; derivative in 1 | No | NR | NR |
NR: Not reported; PD: Pancreaticoduodenectomy.