Central pancreatectomy for benign or low-grade malignant pancreatic tumors in the neck and body of the pancreas

Table 2 Perioperative outcomes of the patients

	Central pancreatectomy (n = 34)	Distal pancreatectomy (n = 262)	P value
Surgery, n (%)			< 0.005
Open surgery	25 (73.5)	63 (24.2)
Laparoscopy	9 (26.5)	197 (75.8)
Associated splenectomy, n (%)	0	123 (46.9)
Mean operation time (min)	311	244	< 0.05
Mean perioperative blood loss (mL)	159	167	0.525
Overall morbidity, n (%)			0.370
I	13 (38.2)	91 (34.0)
II	11 (32.4)	95 (36.6)
IIIa	2 (5.9)	17 (6.5)
IIIb	2 (5.9)	3 (1.1)
IV	0 (0)	0 (0)
POPF grade, n (%)			0.073
A	15 (44.1)	67 (25.6)
B	10 (29.4)	85 (32.4)
C	0 (0)	0 (0)
Chyle leakage, n (%)	1 (2.9)	15 (5.7)	0.926
Delayed gastric emptying, n (%)			< 0.05
A	9 (26.5)	38 (14.5)
B	1 (2.9)	2 (0.8)
C	0 (0)	1 (0.4)
Postoperative bleeding	0 (0)	0 (0)	-
Mean postoperative hospital stay (d)	17	11	0.783
In-hospital mortality	0 (0)	0 (0)	-
Readmission within 30 d	0 (0)	0 (0)	-

Data are presented as n (%), unless otherwise indicated. POPF: Postoperative pancreatic fistula.