Patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer (PDAC) or endocrine tumors (PET) often develop splenic vein thrombosis, hypersplenism, and thrombocytopenia which limits the administration of chemotherapy.
Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, CHS, Room 72-215, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6904, USA. tdonahue@mednet.ucla.edu
