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Table 3 Operative morbidity and mortality

From: Prognostic impact of para-aortic lymph node metastases in non-pancreatic periampullary cancer

Variable

PALN+

PALN–

P

Patients [n]

7

60

 

Morbidity [n/(%)]

6 (86)

39 (60)

0.411

 Diarrhea [n/(%)]

0

0

 

 Lymph fistula [n/(%)]

0

3 (5)

1.000

 POPF [n/(%)]

1 (14)

21 (35)

0.411

 PPH [n/(%)]

0

9 (15)

0.581

 DGE [n/(%)]

1 (14)

25 (42)

0.233

 SSI [n/(%)]

2 (29)

14 (23)

1.000

 Abscess [n/(%)]

2 (29)

16 (26)

1.000

 Thromboembolism [n/(%)]

1 (14)

4 (7)

0.434

Mortality

   

 30d [n/(%)]

0

3 (5)

1.000

 60d [n/(%)]

0

3 (5)

1.000

  1. Abbreviations: POPF: Postoperative pancreatic fistula B/C (classified according to Bassi); PPH: Postpancreatectomy hemorrhage; DGE: Delayed gastric emptying; SSI: Surgical site infection