Dramatic improvements in outcome following pancreatoduodenectomy for pancreatic and periampullary cancers.

In contrast, postoperative mortality decreased monotonically and drastically from 17.2% in the 1960s to 1.6% during the most recent time period with no appreciable difference between the four cancer types and the three surgical procedures but an increasing trend with higher age at pancreatoduodenectomy (Table 1 ).

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