A Simple and Safe Anastomosis for Pancreatogastrostomy Using One Binding Purse-String and Two Transfixing Mattress Sutures

Table 2

Overview on trials on pancreaticogastrostomy.

First author (year)	Number of patients with PG	Number of pancreatic fistulas (%)	Mortality (%)
Randomized controlled trials
Yeo (1995) [4]	73	9 (12.3)	0 (0)
Duffas (2005) [5]	81	13 (16)	10 (12.3)
Bassi (2005) [6]	69	9 (13)	0 (0)
Fernàndez-Cruz (2008) [7]*	53	3 (5.7)	0 (0)
Observational clinical trials
Andivot (1996) [14]	43	6 (14)	2 (4.7)
Kim (1997) [15]	48	1 (2.1)	1 (2.1)
Kapur (1998) [16]	125	0 (0)	6 (4.8)
Fabre (1998) [17]	160	4 (2.5)	5 (3.1)
Arnaud (1999) [18]	80	3 (3.7)	3 (3.7)
Takano (2000) [23]	88	0 (0)	0 (0)
Schlitt (2002) [19]	250	7 (2.8)	11 (4.4)
Aranha (2003) [8]	152	21 (13.8)	0 (0)
Munoz-Bongrand (2004) [20]	242	31 (12.8)	1 (0.4)
Oussoultzoglou (2004) [21]	167	4 (2.3)	5 (2.9)
Hoshal (2004) [22]	84	4 (5)	—
Shinchi (2006) [13]	103	2 (1.9)	0 (0)
Ohigashi (2008) [9]	17	0 (0)	—
Peng (2009) [10]	26	0 (0)	0 (0)
Presented series (2011)*	35	3 (8.6)	0 (0)

*PF classified on ISGPF-criteria.