Table 4.

Post-operative features of patients undergoing laparoscopic spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy n (%)

	LSPDP (n = 38)
Total complications	7 (18.4)
Grade I	5 (13.2)
Grade II	2 (5.3)
Grade IIIa/IIIb	0 (0)/0 (0)
Details of complications
Pancreatic fistula	5 (13.2)
Grade A	3 (7.9)
Grade B	2 (5.3)
Grade C	0 (0.0)
Pneumonia	1 (2.6)
Intra-abdominal abscess	1 (2.6)
Time to activities (d)	1.5 ± 0.6
Time to first flatus (d)	2.2 ± 1.0
Time to starting liquid (d)	2.8 ± 0.9
Time to starting soft diets (d)	4.0 ± 1.2
Postoperative hospital stay (d)	7.6 ± 2.9
30-d mortality	0 (0.0)

LSPDP: Laparoscopic spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy.