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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 6.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg. 2020 Sep 5;221(2):465–471. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2020.08.048

Table 1.

Clinicopathologic characteristics.

OVERALL
SPORADIC
MEN1
VHL
P
(n = 82) (n = 37) (n = 20) (n = 25)

Median Age (IQR) 46 (35–60) 57 (43–63) 40 (29–49) 43 (35–53) 0.003

Gender 0.90
 Male 40 19 9 12
 Female 42 18 11 13

Median BMI (IQR) 30 (25–33) 22 (25–34) 29 (26–32) 31 (24–33) 0.98

Underlying Diagnosis
 Sporadic 37 37 0 0
 MEN1 20 0 20 0
 VHL 25 0 0 25

VHL v Non-VHL
 Non-VHL 57
 VHL 25

Familial v Sporadic
 Sporadic 37
 Familial 45

Cystic Pancreas < 0.001
 No 62 34 18 10
 Yes 20 3 2 15

Functional Tumor < 0.001
 No 37 3 9 25
 Yes 45 34 11 0

History of Pancreatitis 0.19
 No 79 36 18 25
 Yes 3 1 2 0

History of Alcohol Abuse 0.14
 No 75 35 19 21
 Yes 6 1 1 4

History of Smoking 0.06
 No 59 28 17 14
 Yes 22 8 3 11

Pre-Op Diabetes 0.78
 No 72 33 18 21
 Yes 10 4 2 4

Pre-op Exocrine Replacement
 No 82 37 20 25
 Yes 0 0 0 0

Surgical Procedure 0.005
 Enucleation 39 24 4 11
 Distal Pancreatectomy 37 12 15 10
 Pancreatiocoduodenectomy 6 1 1 4

Volume of Pancreas Resected 0.65
 Mean (range) 33 cm3 (0.02–397 cm3) 28 cm3 (0.02–397 cm3) 42 cm3 (2–174 cm3) 32 cm3 (0.87–123 cm3)
 Median (IQR) 18 cm3 (2–52 cm3) 2 cm3 (0.40–24 cm3) 32 cm3 (8–61 cm3) 19 cm3 (4–51 cm3)

Multifocal 0.001
 No 52 31 7 14
 Yes 30 6 13 11

Tumor Grade 0.16
 Grade 1 43 22 12 9
 Grade 2 21 5 6 10
 Grade 3 2 1 0 1

Metastasis 0.22
 No 70 34 15 21
 Yes 12 3 5 4

Cysts in remnant pancreas < 0.001
 No 67 34 18 10
 Yes 15 3 2 15

PNET in remnant pancreas < 0.001
 No 57 35 9 13
 Yes 25 2 11 12

Post-op Exocrine Replacement 0.13
 No 76 36 19 21
 Yes 6 1 1 4

>New or Worsening Diabetes
 No 72 35 16 21 0.22
 Yes 10 2 4 4

Median Length of Days Follow Up (IQR) 629 (15–1894) 22 (0–177) 1454 (442–2271) 1863(648–2826) < 0.001

MEN1: multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1,VHL: von Hippel-Lindau, PNET: pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor.

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Three patients underwent enucleation, 5 underwent DP, and 1 underwent PD.