According to the literature study performed between september 2009 and february 2012 to analyze 86 patients in a randomized controlled trial who underwent pylorus preserving partial pancreatoduodenectomy at a single-center.The ¿per protocol¿ group included 56 patients: ligasure (28) and conventional (28).Complications for all of the ligasure patients in both of the study arms include: bleeding (5 patients), delayed gastric emptying (4 patients), abscesses or fluid collection (6 patients), chyle leak (7 patients), wound infection (6 patients) and cholangitis (3 patients).
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