Surgical Results of Pancreaticoduodenectomy at Our Hospital

The Pancreatic Cancer Practice Guidelines (2019 edition) recommend that surgical treatment for pancreatic cancer be performed at facilities with large numbers of surgical cases. Although our hospital is not a so-called high-volume center, we have been actively performing challenging hepatobiliary and pancreatic operations for patients who wish to be treated in our department. We investigated factors including surgery-related factors, perioperative complications, and long-term prognosis, in 78 cases of pancreaticoduodenectomy performed during the 10-year period from 2010 to 2019. There were no surgery-related deaths, the 5-year survival rate for surgical cases of pancreatic head cancer was a relatively good 31%, and the postoperative outcomes and long-term prognoses were comparable to those of high-volume centers. As a regional core hospital, we must continue to provide safe and high-quality medical care.