Table 2. Clinicopathological background characteristics of the patients.
ASA-PS: American Society of Anesthesiologists - Physical Status; Ph: pancreatic head; Pbt: pancreatic body or tail; PVR: portal vein resection; NAC: neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
*Chi-square test.
| Variables | Low %WL (n=39) | High %WL (n=29) | *p-value | |
| Age | ≧70 | 20 | 16 | 0.809 |
| ＜70 | 19 | 13 | ||
| Gender | Male | 23 | 19 | 0.622 |
| Female | 16 | 10 | ||
| ASA-PS | 1 | 13 | 13 | 0.634 |
| 2 | 20 | 12 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 4 | ||
| Location | Ph | 19 | 24 | 0.005 |
| Pbt | 20 | 5 | ||
| PVR | With | 5 | 11 | 0.022 |
| Without | 34 | 18 | ||
| Transfusion | ⁺ | 3 | 7 | 0.085 |
| − | 36 | 22 | ||
| pT | 0-2 | 7 | 5 | 1.000 |
| ≧3 | 32 | 24 | ||
| pN | 0 | 13 | 10 | 1.000 |
| 1/2 | 26 | 19 | ||
| pM | 0 | 37 | 29 | 0.504 |
| 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| NAC | ⁺ | 15 | 13 | 0.627 |
| - | 24 | 16 | ||
| Adjuvant | ⁺ | 30 | 24 | 0.763 |
| - | 9 | 5 | ||
| Complication | ⁺ | 16 | 22 | 0.006 |
| - | 23 | 7 | ||