Surgical palliation of unresectable pancreatic head cancer in elderly patients

Table 1 Patient characteristics and clinical outcomes of Groups A, B and C

	Group A	Group B	Group C
Patient characteristics
Number of patients	19	19	17
Mean age	71.6 ± 4.8	55.6 ± 6.8	74.4 ± 5.8
Male/Female	7/12	13/6	11/6
ASA
I	6	8	5
II	9	8	9
III	4	3	3
Stage
III	16	13	16
IV	3	6	1
Biliary and gastric bypass	18	15	14.5 ± 6.5
Mean preoperative bilirubin level (mg/dL)	11.2 ± 7.9	14.5 ± 6.5
Clinical outcomes			2.2 ± 2.7
Mean postoperative bilirubin level (mg/dL)	0.9 ± 0.5	1.5 ± 0.6b	1 (5.9%)
Early complications	5 (26%)	1 (5.3%)	1 (5.9%)
30 d mortality	1 (5.3%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (26.7%)a
Recurrent jaundice	0 (0.0%)	2 (10.5%)	2 (11.8%)
Gastric outlet obstruction	0 (0.0%)	1 (5.3%)	14 (range, 2-43)a
Median postoperative hospital stay (days)	19 (range, 3-73)	20 (range, 13-70)	20a
Number of readmissions	9	22	120 (range, 0-230)b
Median survival (days)	290 (range, 3-723)	213 (range, 70-510)	150 (range, 2-240)b

ASA: American Society of Anesthesiologists.

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01 vs Group A.