Table 2 Short-term outcomes, surgical findings, and postoperative findings
From: Initial experience of reduced port surgery using a two-surgeon technique for colorectal cancer
Variable | Conventional lap | 2-surgeon technique | |
|---|---|---|---|
n = 429 | n = 106 | p value | |
Reconstruction: n (%) | |||
FEEA | 246 (57 %) | 79 (74 %) | 0.004 |
DST | 178 (42 %) | 26 (25 %) | |
stoma | 5 (1 %) | 1 (1 %) | |
Operative time (mean, min) | 178.5 | 117.9 | 0.0001 |
operative time under FEEA | 170 | 110.3 | 0.0001 |
operative time under DST | 187.8 | 141.4 | 0.0001 |
Blood loss (mean; range, g) | 19.7 (0–917) | 12.3 (0–230) | 0.294 |
Length of umbilical incision (mean, cm) | 4.59 | 4.1 | 0.0001 |
Intraoperative complication: n (%) | 5 (1 %) | 3 (3 %) | |
convert to conventional LAP | - | 1 (1 %) | |
convert to open surgery | 5 (1 %) | 2 (2 %) | |
Postoperative conmlication: n (%) | 23 (5 %) | 3 (3 %) | 0.278 |
leakage | 6 (1.4 %) | 1 (1 %) | |
hematoma & hemorrhage | 5 (1.2 %) | 2 (1.8 %) | |
paralytic ileus | 6 (1.4 %) | 0 | |
Postoperative hospital stay (median; range, day) | 7 (5–136) | 6 (4–20) | 0.0001 |
Tumor size (mean, cm) | 4.0 | 3.8 | 0.339 |
Harvest lymph node (mean, n) | 25.2 | 24.7 | 0.667 |
pTNM staging: n (%) | |||
0/I | 120 (28 %) | 30 (30 %) | 0.066 |
II | 132 (31 %) | 31 (29 %) | |
III | 121 (28 %) | 36 (34 %) | |
IV | 56 (13 %) | 7 (7 %) | |
R0 resection: n (%) | 429 (100 %) | 106 (100 %) | - |