Fig. 1

The rate of emergence of ascites according to metastatic site diagnosed by staging laparoscopy. Figure 1 shows the curve of emergence of ascites in patients with locally advanced PDAC (LA, solid black line), with positive cytology (CY, solid grey line), with peritoneal metastasis (P, dotted grey line), and with liver metastasis (L, dotted black line). There were significant differences in the rate of emergence of ascites between LA and P (p < 0.001) and LA and CY (p = 0.033) groups