Table 2.

Correlation of soft pancreatic texture with occurrence of postoperative pancreatic fistula and low histopathological fibrosis grade

Pancreatic texture	Occurrence of postoperative pancreatic fistula (ISGPS definition)
	No POPF	POPF grade A	POPF grade B	POPF C
Soft	16	11	2	4
Hard	27	1	1	0
	Correlation coefficient = 0.47, P < 0.001a

Pancreatic texture	Histopathological fibrosis grade
0	1	2	3
Soft	6	13	10	2
Hard	0	0	13	14
	Correlation coefficient = −0.68,P < 0.001a

Pancreatic texture as assessed by the operating surgeon

Numbers are actual numbers of patients

^aCorrelation coefficient and P-value for two-tailed Spearman's rank correlation

POPF, postoperative pancreatic fistula; ISGPS, International Study Group for Pancreatic Surgery