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Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 years or older and younger than 75 years. * Histopathologically confirmed non-pancreatic periampullary carcinoma, or a high clinical suspicion of non-pancreatic periampullary carcinoma when preoperative pathological confirmation is unavailable. * Determined by preoperative multidisciplinary team evaluation to require pancreaticoduodenectomy. * Able to understand and comply with study procedures. * Able and willing to provide written informed consent before any study-specific screening procedure. * Expected to benefit from therapeutic pancreaticoduodenectomy according to applicable clinical guidelines. Exclusion Criteria: * Distant metastasis, including peritoneal, hepatic, distant lymph node, or other organ metastasis. * Requirement for distal, central, or total pancreatectomy, or another palliative procedure. * Preoperative American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification of 4 or higher. * Concurrent malignancy other than the target cancer. * Pregnancy or breastfeeding. * Severe psychiatric disorder that would interfere with study participation. * Receipt of neoadjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy before surgery. * Vascular invasion requiring vascular resection, as determined by the multidisciplinary team based on preoperative abdominal imaging. * Body mass index greater than 35 kg/m². * Participation in another clinical trial within the previous 3 months.