Morphohistological Features of Pancreatic Stump Are the Main Determinant of Pancreatic Fistula after Pancreatoduodenectomy

Table 4

Univariate analysis of morphological features of pancreatic stump as risk factors for POPF.

	Patients with POPF (𝑛=41)	Patients without POPF (𝑛=104)	𝑃 value	Patients with grade B-C POPF (𝑛=23)	Other patients (𝑛=122)	𝑃 value
Pancreatic texture by surgeon
Soft (𝑛=45)	30	15	<0,001	19	26	<0,001
Medium or hard (𝑛=100)	11	89		4	96
Wirsung diameter (mm)	3,19 ± 1,21	4,29 ± 1,73	<0,001	3,08 ± 1,42	4,14 ± 1,69	0,006
≤3 mm (𝑛=63)	26	37	0,002	15	48	0,022
>3 mm (𝑛=82)	15	67		8	74
Wirsung decentralization
Anteroposterior axis	0,31 ± 0,34	0,23 ± 0,30	0,031	0,28 ± 0,40	0,25 ± 0,31	0,131
Craniocaudal axis	−0,17 ± 0,16	−0,12 ± 0,23	0,426	−0,20 ± 0,16	−0,13 ± 0,21	0,412
Stump area (mm^2)	219,21 ± 113,79	138,23 ± 99,08	<0,001	223,82 ± 110,42	149,59 ± 105,97	0,003
Stump mobilization (mm)	24,26 ± 5,42	20,59 ± 4,02	<0,001	24,34 ± 5,89	21,12 ± 4,33	0,003