| ASA | American Society of Anesthesiologists |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| DPCG | Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group |
| HR | Hazard ratio |
| ICD-O | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology |
| IKNL | Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization |
| IPMN | Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm |
| MCN | Mucinous cystic neoplasm |
| NCR | Netherlands Cancer Registry |
| OS | Overall survival |
| PALGA | Dutch National Pathology Database |
| PCN | Pancreatic cystic neoplasms |
| PCN-PDAC | Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma associated with pancreatic cystic neoplasm |
| PDAC | Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma |
| pN | Pathological lymph node stage |
| pT | Pathological tumor stage |
| R | Radicality |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| STROBE | Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology |
| TNM | Tumor-node-metastasis |
| WHO | World Health Organization |