Intraoperative frozen segment (IFS) is regularly used by numerous specialists during pancreaticoduodenectomy. Be that as it may, its utility has not been thoroughly contemplated. Patients who went through pancreaticoduodenectomy somewhere in the range of 2006 and 2015 were recognized from institutional information. Proportions of analytic precision of frozen segment and multivariate calculated relapse are accounted for. The accomplice included 1076 patients. Of resected examples, 73.3% were dangerous. Uncertainties and last pathologic audit (the best quality level) were discrepant for (1) pathologic finding or (2) resection edge status in 5.3% and 3.3% of cases. The affectability, particularity, and precision of IFS for histologic assurance of danger were 97.2%, 95.3%, and 96.7% individually. For resection edges, they were 92.3%, 99.3%, and 96.8%, separately. Positive bile channel and neck edges were updated intraoperatively 62% and 65% of the time, separately; positive uncinate edges were never resected however driven specialists to evade modification of a second certain edge in 13% of cases (4.2% of all PDA).

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