Laparoscopic pancreatectomy: Indications and outcomes

Table 1 Summary of laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy series comparing the pre-operative variables and intra-operative outcomes laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy and open distal pancreatectomy

Ref.	LDP/ODP	BMI	Comorbidity	Splenic preservation	OR time (min)	Blood loss (cc)	Conversion
Abu Hilal et al[2]	35/16	N/A	N/A	40%/19%	200/225	200/394a	0.0%
Fox et al[3]	42/76	27.3/26.5	NS	35.7%/22.4%	304/281	375/375	11.9%
Mehta et al[4]	30/30	N/A	N/A	70%/30%a	188/226	294/729a	N/A
Limongelli et al[5]	16/29	26.4/27.1	NS	31%/14%	204/160a	160/365a	6.0%
Soh et al[6]	10/21	25/21	NS	N/A	383/330	275/600a	N/A
Butturini et al[7]	43/73	N/A	N/A	44.2%/11%a	180/180	N/A	0.0%
Cho et al[8]	254/439	NS	NS	34%/10%a	NS	24%/54% (> 300cc)	9.4%
Aly et al[9]	40/35	21/21	N/A	32%/8%a	342/250a	363/606a	10.0%
DiNorcia et al[10]	71/192	N/A	NS	15.5%/15.6%	250/270a	150/900a	25.3%
Jayaraman et al[11]	107/236	27/27	N/A	21%/14%	194/163a	150/350a	30.0%
Kooby et al[12]	23/189	28.5/26.2	NS	N/A	238/230	422/790a	17.0%
Vijan et al[13]	100/100	27.4/27.9	NS	25%/N/A	214/208	171/519a	4.0%
Baker et al[14]	27/85	N/A	NS	N/A	236/253	219.4/612.6a	3.6%
Finan et al[15]	44/104	28.3/26.9	NS	2%/2.7%	156/200a	157/719a	4.1%
Nakamura et al[16]	21/16	23.4/21.3	NS	35%/31%	308/282	249/714a	4.8%
Bruzoni et al[17]	7/4	29.5/29	N/A	100%/100%	182/152	214/362	0.0%
Eom et al[18]	31/62	22.2/23	N/A	42%/NR	217.7/194.8	N/A	N/A
Kim et al[19]	93/35	23.4/23.9	NS	40.9%/5.7%a	195/190	NS	N/A
Matsumoto et al[20]	14/19	N/A	NS	N/A	290.7/213.8a	247.1/400.3	7.0%
Misawa et al[21]	8/9	N/A	N/A	12.5%/0%	255/205	14/307a	0.0%
Tang et al[22]	9/5	N/A	NS	55.6%/0%	180/210	100/450a	0.0%
Teh et al[23]	12/16	26.4/27.5	NS	41.7%/6.3%	212/278a	193/609a	16.0%
Velanovich et al[24]	15/15	N/A	N/A	0%/0%	N/A	N/A	20.0%
Fernández-Cruz et al[25]	5/41	N/A	N/A	100%/39.9%	N/A	450/N/A	N/A

Summary of laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy (LDP) series comparing the pre-operative variables and intra-operative outcomes LDP and open distal pancreatectomy (ODP). The results are shown as “LDP/ODP”;

^aP < 0.05. NS: Statistically non-significant between the two groups; N/A: Data not available.