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Table 5 Comparison of study results relating to the Frey procedure and partial pancreaticoduodenectomy.

From: Different surgical strategies for chronic pancreatitis significantly improve long-term outcome: a comparative single center study

 

Follow-up in months

Number of patients

Freedom from pain

Significant improvement

Newly acquired, insulin-requiring diabetes

Newly acquired exocrine insufficiency

Frey procedure

      

Own results

50

30

50%

43%

17%

30%

Frey, 1994

37

50

34%

40.50%

11%

11%

Izbicki, 1995

18

22

89%

-

-

10%

Izbicki, 1997

30

36

92%

-

3%

3%

Izbicki 1998

24

31

90%

-

-

3%

Pancreaticoduodenectomy

      

Own results

50

6

-

67%

50%

17%

Klempa, 1995

36

30

60%

10%

30%

80%

Izbicki, 1998

24

30

87%

-

9.70%

22.60%

Witzigmann, 2002

18

20

40%

20%

10%

no data