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ArticleSurgical endoscopy2026

Textbook outcome after robotic pancreatic enucleation: a two-center evaluation of an ideal perioperative pathway.

Marionna Cathomas, Zheng Li, Benedict Kinny-Köster, Bo Kong, Ingmar Rompen, Elias Gauer, Miriam Klauß, Christoph W Michalski, Martin Loos, Jin He and 1 more

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Marionna CathomasDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1221-6285
Zheng LiDepartment of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Benedict Kinny-KösterDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Bo KongDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Ingmar RompenDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Elias GauerDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Miriam KlaußClinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Christoph W MichalskiDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Martin LoosDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Jin HeDepartment of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Thomas HankDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany. thomas.hank@med.uni-heidelberg.de.

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introductionRobotic pancreatic enucleation (rPE) has emerged as a parenchyma-sparing surgical approach for benign or low-grade malignant pancreatic lesions. However, standardized metrics to assess perioperative quality are lacking. This study aimed to propose an rPE-specific textbook outcome (rPE-TO) reflecting an ideal perioperative pathway and to evaluate its applicability in two independent institutional cohorts. MATERIAL AND

methodsPatients undergoing completed rPE at University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany, between April 2023 and March 2025 were analyzed, and the proposed rPE-TO was additionally evaluated in an independent institutional cohort from Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA. The rPE-TO comprised six components: no conversion to open surgery, no incomplete resection requiring reoperation, no clinically relevant postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF), no major complications (Clavien-Dindo < IIIa, with POPF assessed separately), no readmission within 30 days, and no mortality within 90 days.

resultsThe Heidelberg cohort included 31 patients, of whom 20 (64.5%) achieved rPE-TO. Among the individual components, conversion to open surgery occurred in 4 patients (12.9%), incomplete resection requiring reoperation in 1 (3.2%), POPF in 6 (19.4%), major complications in 2 (6.5%), and 30-day readmission in 2 (6.5%); no 90-day mortality occurred. In the Johns Hopkins cohort (n = 48), rPE-TO was achieved in 29 patients (60.4%). Despite comparable overall rPE-TO rates, the distribution of individual failure components differed between institutions. In addition, length of hospital stay was shorter among patients achieving rPE-TO in both cohorts.

conclusionTextbook outcome was achieved in approximately two thirds of patients undergoing rPE in both institutional cohorts. The proposed rPE-TO integrates established perioperative quality measures with procedure-specific outcomes and may provide a composite measure for assessing an ideal perioperative pathway after robotic pancreatic enucleation.

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EnucleationPancreatic lesionQuality assessmentRobotic surgery

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