Conservative resection for benign tumors of the proximal pancreas

Table 2 Postoperative morbidity and mortality rates of CR for benign tumors in the proximal pancreas: summary of cases in the literature

Author	Year	No. of cases	Morbidity rate (%)	Pancreatic fistula (%)	Mortality rate (%)
Sperti et al[21]	2000	101	40	30	0
Balzano et al[6]	2003	462	51	39	0
Efron et al[24]	2004	141	50	36	0
Roggin et al[23]	2006	101	60	30	0
Brown et al[25]	2006	101	60	40	0
Christein et al[22]	2006	81	63	63	0
Falconi et al[7]	2007	363	44	31	0
Present series	2007	20	25	25	0

¹Central pancreatectomy;

²Thirty two central pancreatectomies and 14 enucleations;

³Twenty one central pancreatectomies and 15 enucleations.