Framingham Risk Score

Pancreatic duct

Cohort study

Pancreas

Disease

Body mass index

Cohort

Internal medicine

Radiology

Fistula

Surgery

Pancreaticoduodenectomy

Pancreatic fistula

Medicine

Existing postoperative pancreatic fistula risk scores rely on intraoperative parameters, which limits their value in the preoperative setting. A preoperative predictive model to stratify the risk of developing postoperative pancreatic fistula before pancreatoduodenectomy was built and externally validated.

Preoperative risk stratification of postoperative pancreatic fistula: A risk-tree predictive model for pancreatoduodenectomy