Comparison of an Inside Stent and a Fully Covered Self-Expandable Metallic Stent as Preoperative Biliary Drainage for Patients with Resectable Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma

Table 5

Postoperative complications of pancreatic fistula classified with and without hepatectomy and pancreatectomy.

Pancreatic fistula	With (n = 16)	Without (n = 35)	value
With pancreatectomy	11	4	0.930
IS	3	1
FCSEMS	8	3
Without pancreatectomy	5	31	0.001
IS	0	24
FCSEMS	5	7

IS, inside stent; FCSEMS, fully covered self-expandable metallic stent.