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Table 1 Patient background and oncological factors

From: Short-term outcomes associated with the use of a new powered circular stapler for rectal reconstructions: a retrospective study comparing it to manual circular staplers using inverse probability of treatment weight analysis

 

Auto (N = 99)

Manual (N = 139)

p-value

Gender (Male, %)

66 (66.7)

91 (65.5)

0.96

Age (year)*

64.9 ± 11.0

65.5 ± 11.3

0.87

BMI (kg/m2)*

23.6 ± 3.55

23.0 ± 4.38

0.24

ASA-PS (%)

1

27 (27.3)

46 (33.1)

0.62

2

67 (67.7)

88 (63.3)

3

5 (5.1)

5 (3.6)

Diabetes (%)

22 (22.2)

23 (16.5)

0.35

PNI*

50.5 ± 5.5

51.6 ± 5.2

0.10

Histology (%)

Differentiated AC

92 (92.9)

125 (89.9)

0.71

Undifferentiated AC

2 (2.0)

8 (5.8)

NET

4 (4.0)

3 (2.2)

Unknown

1 (1.0)

3 (2.2)

tumor size (mm)*

36.6 ± 19.8

38.0 ± 19.9

0.54

cT factor (%)

1

24 (24.2)

31 (22.6)

0.98

2

18 (18.2)

21 (15.1)

3

42 (42.4)

62 (44.6)

4

15 (15.2)

23 (16.5)

cN factor (%)

0

54 (54.5)

85 (61.2)

0.30

1

25 (25.3)

40 (28.8)

2

12 (12.1)

10 (7.2)

3

8 (8.1)

4 (2.9)

cM factor (%)

0

86 (86.9)

129 (92.8)

0.19

1

13 (13.1)

10 (7.2)

Preoperative treatment (%)

NAC

13 (5.5)

2 (0.8)

0.002

CRT

2 (0.8)

2 (0.8)

NAC + CRT

1 (0.4)

1 (0.4)

  1. BMI Body Mass Index
  2. ASA-PS American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status
  3. PNI Prognostic Nutritional Index = (10 × Alb) + (0.005 × TLC)
  4. AC Adenocarcinoma
  5. NET Neuroendocrine tumor
  6. NAC Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
  7. CRT Chemoradiotherapy
  8. AL Anastomotic Leakage
  9. *Mean ± SD, †Pearson's Chi-squared test