Opportunities of improvement in the management of pancreatic and periampullary tumors.

Abstract Objective. The first objective of the present study was to identify opportunities of improvement for clinical practice, assessed by local quality indicators, then to analyze possible reasons why we did not reach defined treatment quality measures. The second objective was to characterize patients, considered unresectable according to present criteria, for future arrangement of interventional studies with improved patient selection.

A new, clinically oriented, unifying and simple placental classification system.

Objective: At present there is no internationally accepted, clinically easy understandable, comprehensive morphological placental classification. This hampers international benchmarking and comparisons, and clinical research.

Study Design: Internationally published criteria on morphological placental pathology were collected, standardized and focused into a comprehensive diagnosis category system.