Identifying the preoperative factors predicting the surgical difficulty of robotic distal pancreatectomy.
Qiang XuPengyu LiHanyu ZhangMengyi WangQiaofei LiuWenjing LiuMeng-Hua DaiPublished in: Surgical endoscopy (2023)
Male sex, body mass index ≥ 25 kg/m2, tumor located at the neck of the pancreas and splenic artery type B are associated with a high RDP difficulty level. These factors can be used preoperatively to assess the difficulty level of surgery, to help surgeons choose patients suitable for them and ensure surgical safety.