Table 2.
Perioperative details in open and robotic surgery groups before and after propensity score matching
| Open surgery n = 264 |
Robotic surgery n = 92 |
P value | Matched-open surgery n = 41 |
Matched-robotic surgery n = 41 |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration of surgery1 | 315 (96–576) | 261.5 (62–535) | 315 (123–447) | 271 (111–532) | 0.164 | |
| ICU stay (days)1 | 2 (0–84) | 1 (1–43) | 1 (0–13) | 1 (1–43) | 0.401 | |
| Hospital stay (days)1 | 19 (8–55) | 12 (6–91) | 0.003 | |||
| Readmission to ICU2 | 47 (18) | 18 (20) | 0.706 | 7 (17) | 8 (20) | 0.775 |
| Postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF)2 | 0.001 | 0.108 | ||||
| Grade A | 6 (2) | 3 (3) | 5 (12) | 1 (6) | ||
| Grade B | 31 (12) | 27 (29) | 5 (12) | 11 (27) | ||
| Grade C | 1 (0) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 1 (2) | ||
| Delayed gastric emptying | 0.327 | 0.048 | ||||
| Yes | 20 (8) | 10 (11) | 1 (2) | 6 (15) | ||
| No | 244 (92) | 82 (89) | 40 (98) | 35 (85) | ||
| Post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage (PPH)2 | < 0.001 | 0.258 | ||||
| Grade A | 20 (8) | 3 (3) | 0 (0) | 1 (8) | ||
| Grade B | 7 (3) | 27 (2) | 5 (83) | 11 (85) | ||
| Grade C | 2 (1) | 1 (1) | 1 (17) | 1 (8) | ||
| Complications (Dindo/Clavien)2 | < 0.001 | 0.051 | ||||
| None | 97 (37) | 29 (32) | 11 (27) | 15 (37) | ||
| I | 28 (11) | 6 (7) | 7 (17) | 3 (7) | ||
| II | 31 (12) | 6 (7) | 6 (15) | 2 (5) | ||
| IIIa | 50 (19) | 8 (9) | 9 (22) | 3 (7) | ||
| IIIb | 23 (9) | 25 (27) | 3 (7) | 10 (24) | ||
| IVa | 7 (3) | 13 (14) | 1 (2) | 5 (12) | ||
| IVb | 13 (5) | 2 (2) | 2 (5) | 2 (5) | ||
| V | 15 (6) | 3 (3) | 2 (5) | 1 (2) | ||
| Major complications (> grade II)2 | 108 (41) | 51 (55) | 0.016 | 17 (42) | 21 (51) | 0.376 |
| 90-day mortality2 | 4 (2) | 3 (3) | 0.299 | 0 (0) | 1 (1) | 0.314 |
1Data are presented as median and range, 2data is presented as count and proportions (%)