Proposal and Critical Appraisal of Exclusion Criteria to the International Study Group for Pancreatic Surgery Definition of Delayed Gastric Emptying

The ISGPS consensus guidelines promote a standardized, sensitive, and easily applicable definition of DGE, but may falsely classify DGE in approximately 23.1%. Introduction of the proposed exclusion criteria, which establish objective radiologic data as a component of the definition, could substantially limit this overestimation.