Table 1. Previous Studies Evaluating Short-term Outcomes in Elderly Patients Undergoing Pancreatic Resection.

	Year	Age Group	N	Mortality	Overall Morbidity	Length of Stay (median in days)
Single-institution
Fong et al.²⁰	1995	<70	350	4.0%	39%	20
Fong et al.²⁰	1995	>=70	138	5.8%	45%	20
Richter et al.²³	1996	<=70	293	1.9%^*	22%^*	NR
Richter et al.²³	1996	>70	45	4.3%^*	39%^*	NR
Sohn et al.²⁴	1998	<80	681	1.6%	41%^*	13
Sohn et al.²⁴	1998	>=80	46	4.3%	57%^*	15^*
al-Sharaf et al.¹⁶	1999	<70	74 (total)	4.0%	NR	NR
al-Sharaf et al.¹⁶	1999	>=70	74 (total)	7.0%	NR	NR
				3.2% (head)	16%^* (head)
Bottger et al.¹⁸	1999	<=70	300 (total)	1.7%^* (distal)	10%^* (distal)	NR
				2.3% (head)	28%^* (head)
		>70	300 (total)	14%^* (distal)	29%^* (distal)	NR
Bathe et al.¹⁷	2000	60-74	54	3.7%	31%^*	18 (mean)^a
Bathe et al.¹⁷	2000	>=75	16	25.0%	63%^*	25 (mean)
Hodul et al.²¹	2000	<70	74	1.4%	65%	NR
Hodul et al.²¹	2000	>=70	48	0.0%	60%	NR
Brozetti et al.¹⁹	2006	<70	109	3.7%^*	46%^*	16.3 (mean)
Brozetti et al.¹⁹	2006	>=70	57	10.5%^*	49%^*	16 (mean)
Makary et al.²²	2006	<80	2,491	1.7%	42%	10
		80-89	197	4.1%^**	53%^**	11
		>=90	10	0.0%	50%	12
Scurtu et al.²⁵	2006	70-75	38	0.0%	37%	17 (mean)
Scurtu et al.²⁵	2006	>=75	32	6.2%	50%	19 (mean)
Population-based
Finlayson et al.²⁶	2007	65-69	7,125 (weighted)^b	6.7%^*	NR	17.4^* (mean)
		70-79	13,478 (weighted)	9.3%^*	NR	18.2^* (mean)
		>=80	2,915 (weighted)	15.5%^*	NR	20.4^* (mean)
Riall et al.²⁷	2008	<60	1,780	2.4%^*	NR	11^*
		60-69	887	5.8%^*	NR	13^*
		70-79	855	7.4%^*	NR	14^*
		>=80	214	11.4%^*	NR	15^*

P<0.05 younger vs. older group or overall chi-square P-value if multiple groups

^**

P<0.05 compared to patients < 80

Mean is given and not median when noted

Number is weighted since it comes from a random sample