Table 1.
Operative Details for Patients Undergoing Resection for Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas at MGH and MSKCC
| MGH* |
MSKCC† |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operative Characteristic | No. of Patients |
% | No. of Patients |
% | ||
| Laparoscopy | 102 | 24 | 272 | 49 | ||
| Pancreaticoduodenectomy | 354 | 83 | 472 | 85 | ||
| Distal pancreatectomy | 55 | 13 | 56 | 10 | ||
| Total pancreatectomy | 15 | 4 | 27 | 5 | ||
| Median length of hospital stay, days | 11 | 15 | ||||
| 30-Day perioperative mortality | 1 | 2.8 | ||||
Abbreviations: MGH, Massachusetts General Hospital; MSKCC, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
*
Patients treated from January 1985 to December 2003.
†
Patients treated from October 1983 to April 2000.