Journal of surgical oncology
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The aim of this study was to identify if prolonged length of hospital stay was protective for certain post-discharge complications requiring readmission after pancreatectomy. ⋯ Readmission after pancreatectomy primarily occurs due to a new post-discharge event. Furthermore, increased LOS is protective for readmission for post-pancreatectomy complications, particularly those due to post-discharge organ space SSIs. Our findings suggest that solely focusing on reducing LOS in pancreatectomy may lead to the unintended consequence of increasing readmission rates.
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Recurrence of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) after surgery is common. Strategies to detect recurrence have limitations. We investigated the role of clinical criteria and the multigene polymerase chain reaction-based NETest during post-operative follow-up of pNET. ⋯ A multigene blood test facilitates effective identification of pNET recurrence, prediction of disease relapse, and outperforms CgA.