Table 4.

Complications of different techniques for open necrosectomy.

Technique	Patients (n)	Fistulas (pancreatic/enteric)	Haemorrhage (%)
Open packing
Bradley III, 1993 [19]	71	46%	7%
Bosscha et al., 1998 [20]	28	25%	50%
Howard et al., 2007 [22]	102	54%	4%
Planned relaparotomies
Sarr et al., 1991 [23]	23	(26%/52%)	26%
Tsiotos et al., 1998 [24]	72	(19%/27%)	18%
Closed packing
Fernandez-del Castillo et al., 1998 [25]	64	(53%/16%)	3%
Rodriguez et al., 2008 [26]	167	(36%/14%)	4%
Closed continuous lavage
Farkas et al., 2006 [28]	123	(13%/1%)	2%
van Santvoort et al., 2010 [29]	45	(38%/22%)	22%