Faik G Uzunoglu, Matthias Reeh, Eik Vettorazzi, Till Ruschke, Philipp Hannah, Michael F Nentwich, Yogesh K Vashist, Dean Bogoevski, Alexandra König, Monika Janot, Francesca Gavazzi, Alessandro Zerbi, Valentina Todaro, Giuseppe Malleo, Waldemar Uhl, Marco Montorsi, Claudio Bassi, Jakob R Izbicki, Maximilian Bockhorn
OBJECTIVES: Development of a simple preoperative risk score to predict morbidity related to pancreatic surgery. BACKGROUND: Pancreatic surgery is standardized with little technical diversity among institutions and unchanging morbidity and mortality rates in recent years. Preoperative identification of high-risk patients is potentially one of the rare avenues for improving the clinical course of patients undergoing pancreatic surgery. METHODS: Using a prospectively collected multicenter database of patients undergoing pancreatic surgery (n=703), surgical complications were classified according to the Clavien-Dindo classification...
November 2014: Annals of Surgery