Abstract
Introduction: A tool to predict the risk of postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) after distal pancreatectomy (DP) is currently lacking. It could be used for the selection of preventive strategies, for benchmarking across centers and stratifying patients by baseline risk in clinical studies and is ideally calculated prior to surgery. We aimed to develop and externally validate the first fistula risk score for POPF after DP.
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