<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>Two patients with mucosal cancer of the periampullary region were treated with papillocholedochectomy,
which entails removal of the papilla of Vater and the whole length of the common bile duct. The neoplasm is dissected out through the plane between the duodenal circular and longitudinal muscles, deep to the sphincter of Oddi and the fibromuscular layer of the bile duct. Pathological examination showed that cancer was confined to the mucosal layer without stromal invasion, and that the operation achieved radical cure. For mucosal cancer, papillo-choledochectomy is
an alternative to pancreatoduodenectomy, provided that repeated frozen-section studies confirm the
completeness of excision.</p>
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HPB Surg. 1993; 6(3):211-217