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Table 2 Postoperative complications (30-days), venous resection vs. no venous resection

From: Outcomes of resections for pancreatic adenocarcinoma with suspected venous involvement: a single center experience

  

Venous resection VR (n = 54)

 

No venous resection NVR (n = 102)

p-value1

Postoperative complications2

    

0.38

Grade I

12

22.2 %

15

14.71 %

0.19

Grade II3

19

35.2 %

38

37.3 %

0.86

Grade III

8

14.8 %

9

8.8 %

0.28

Grade IV

1

1.8 %

1

1.0 %

1.00

120 day mortality4

3

5.3 %

3

2.9 %

0.37

Portal vein thrombosis

     

30 days

1

1.8 %

1

1.0 %

0.69

total

7

13.0 %

1

1.0 %

0.001

Pancreatic fistula, grade C

2

3.7 %

4

3.9 %

 

Lymph fistula

2

3.7 %

3

2.9 %

 

Delayed gastric emptying

6

11.1 %

4

3.9 %

0.09

Diarrhea

4

7.4 %

4

3.9 %

 

Intraabdominalabscess

2

3.7 %

5

4.9 %

 

Cholangitis

3

5.6 %

15

14.7 %

0.11

Wound infection

3

5.6 %

8

7.8 %

 

Liver ischemia

1

1.8 %

0

0.0 %

 

Bleeding

2

3.7 %

0

0.0 %

 

Re-operation

2

3.7 %

3

2.9 %

 

Pneumonia

0

0.0 %

1

1.0 %

 

Urinary tract infection

2

3.7 %

2

2.0 %

 

Cardiac dysfunction

1

1.8 %

3

2.9 %

 
  1. 1X2-test
  2. 2Clavien-Dindo-Classification
  3. 3VR: 9 patients (47.4 %) only blood transfusion. 6 patients (31.5 %) antibiotics. 1 patient (5.3 %) blood transfusion and antibiotics; without VR: 4 patients (10.5 %) only blood transfusion. 21 patients (55.3 %) only antibiotics; 4 patients (10.5 %) blood transfusion and antibiotics
  4. 4VR (n = 57) vs. NVR (n = 105)