World journal of surgery
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World journal of surgery · Dec 2009
How do we predict the clinically relevant pancreatic fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy?--an analysis in 244 consecutive patients.
The most important problem in pancreatic fistula is whether one can distinguish clinical pancreatic fistula, grade B + C fistula by the International Study Group on Pancreatic Fistula (ISGPF), from transient pancreatic fistula (grade A), in the early period after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). It remains unclear what predictive risk factors can precisely predict which clinical relevant or transient pancreatic fistula when diagnosed pancreatic fistula on POD3 by ISGPF criteria. ⋯ The combination of two factors on POD4, serum albumin level