Research Article

Overall Postoperative Morbidity and Pancreatic Fistula Are Relatively Higher after Central Pancreatectomy than Distal Pancreatic Resection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 3

Surgical pathology of included studies.

AuthorsSurgical pathology
Benign or borderline (CP/DP)Malignant (CP/DP)

Yamaguchi et al. [17]10/470/0
Balzano et al. [29]32/210/0
Su et al. [31]5/110/0
Shibata et al. [15]
Müller et al. [28]36/364/4
Crippa et al. [36]93/177/28
Ocuin et al. [22]13/180/0
Hirono et al. [18]20/244/4
Cataldegirman et al. [27]32/343/1
DiNorcia et al. [7]50/460/4
Lee et al. [25]14/1210/22
Shikano et al. [16]24/332/2
Kang et al. [24]17/220/0
Dumitrascu et al. [34]19/213/4
Xiang et al. [20]44/550/0
Du et al. [19]36/260/0
Zhan et al. [21]10/120/4
Zureikat et al. [23]13/60/77
Song et al. [26]26/960/0
Mise et al. [14]8/80/0
Herrera-Cabezón et al. [32]10/820/23
Jilesen et al. [33]8/510/21
Dokmak et al. [35]25/10210/63
Boggi et al. [30]

CP: central pancreatectomy; DP: distal pancreatectomy.