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SUBMITTER: Abe T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7414683 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Abe Tomoyuki T Amano Hironobu H Kobayashi Tsuyoshi T Hanada Keiji K Hattori Minoru M Nakahara Masahiro M Ohdan Hideki H Noriyuki Toshio T
BMC gastroenterology 20200808 1
<h4>Background</h4>Postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) is a life-threatening postoperative complication. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the fistula risk score (FRS) and preoperative body composition factors for predicting the occurrence of clinically relevant POPF (CR-POPF) after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD).<h4>Methods</h4>In this study, 136 consecutive patients who underwent PD between 2006 and 2018 were enrolled. The risk factors of CR-POPF (grades B and C) were ana ...[more]