Prognostic analysis of surgical treatment of peripheral cholangiocarcinoma: Two decades of experience at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Table 3 Operative mortality of 373 PCC patients undergoing surgical treatment.

	Hepatectomy (n = 187)	Non-hepatectomy (n = 186)
Cause of death
Sepsis (biliary)	2	8
GI bleeding	0	1
Intra-abdominal bleeding with shock	0	2
Terminal status of cancer	0	6
Necrotizing fascitis with sepsis	0	1
CVA	0	1
Hepatic failure	1	0
Respiratory failure	0	1
Gastrocutaneous fistula	2	0
Total	5	20
Mortality rate	2.70%	10.80%

GI: gastrointestinal, CVA: cerebrovascular accident; mortality rate of hepatectomy vs non-hepatectomy: 2.7% vs 10.8% (P = 0.002); whole series mortality rate: 25/373 = 6.7%.