Postoperative pancreatic leakage might improve the survival of patients with carcinoma of head of pancreas.

The pancreatic leakage is a lethal postoperative complication to the patients after duodenopancreatectomy for carcinoma of head of pancreas. However, we found that the patients who survived this lethal postoperative complication could potentially acquire a longer survival time comparing with those without postoperative pancreatic leakage.