Table 1.
Factors with a potential influence on surgical and general complications, as well as on the perioperative mortality rate after esophagectomy for esophageal carcinoma: univariate analysis (p values).
| Surgical complications | General Complications | Perioperative Mortality | |
| Preoperative factors: | |||
| - Age | 0.8996 | 0.0073* | 0.1349 |
| - Sex | 0.7367 | 0.3396 | 0.5658 |
| - BMI | 0.3710 | 0.1200 | 0.0719 |
| - ASA | 0.3992 | 0.0076* | 0.0274* |
| - Nutritional status | 0.5093 | 0.1897 | 0.2223 |
| - Cardiovascular PD | 0.7803 | 0.0171* | 0.0172* |
| - Pulmonary PD | 0.2910 | 0.0405* | 0.0059* |
| - Hepatopathy | 0.1696 | 0.0282* | 0.0165* |
| - Diabetes mellitus | 0.8218 | 0.0635 | 0.9430 |
| Intraoperative factors: | |||
| - Tumor location | 0.0194* | 0.0156* | 0.0391* |
| - Surgical procedure | 0.0116* | 0.0001* | 0.0057* |
| - Packed erythrocyte transfusion | 0.1045 | 0.0006* | 0.0022* |
| Tumor characteristics: | |||
| - Tumor size | 0.5041 | 0.1595 | 0.1502 |
| - R-classification | 0.5573 | 0.3372 | 0.0439* |
| - T-category | 0.2017 | 0.0072* | 0.0036* |
| - N-category | 0.6805 | 0.9928 | 0.0584 |
| - M-category | 0.0621 | 0.8128 | 0.4359 |
*statistically significant