Assessment of safety during hospitalization for patients undergoing Surgery after neoadjuvant therapy for moderately advanced Esophageal cancer

Table 3 Comparison of postoperative complications between two groups of patients [cases (%)]

Operative complications	Experimental group	Control group	P-value
	(n = 34)	(n = 32)
Respiratory system	22(64.7)	7(21.9)	0.001
pulmonary infection^a	12	3	0.012
Pneumothorax	1	0	0.328
Respiratory failure^b	9	4	0.154
Circulatory system	5(14.7)	4(12.5)	0.794
Cardiac insufficiency	3	3	0.905
Arrhythmia	2	1	0.591
Digestive system	7(20.6)	1(3.1)	0.030
Anastomotic leakage^c	7	1

^apostoperative chest X-ray or CT shows the presence of new or progressive infiltrative, solid and ground glass shadows with a temperature greater than 38 °C
^bpatients with an arterial partial pressure of oxygen less than 60 mmHg with or without a partial ^cpressure of carbon dioxide greater than 50 mmHg in the resting state, breathing air
evaluation by upper gastrointestinal imaging (iodine) on the sixth postoperative day

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