Open AccessA newly improved POSSUM scoring system for prediction of morbidity in patients with pancreaticoduodenectomy
Author(s) -
Zhilei Zhang,
Lian Chen,
Peng Li,
Shengchao Li,
Peng Guo,
Meng Zhang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
translational cancer research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 2219-6803
pISSN - 2218-676X
DOI - 10.21037/tcr-20-828
Subject(s) - medicine , pancreaticoduodenectomy , confidence interval , logistic regression , receiver operating characteristic , retrospective cohort study , multivariate statistics , multivariate analysis , univariate analysis , risk factor , surgery , pancreas , statistics , mathematics
Despite the advancement of surgical techniques and support from perioperative monitoring, perioperative mortality after PD has become a rare event with mortality rates below 5% (1,2). However, the post-PD morbidity rate remains high (38–44%) (2-4), and in recent decades, this situation has not improved. In addition, it is much higher than the incidence of postoperative complications in other gastrointestinal cancer surgery (5-7). In order to reduce the potential for Original Article
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