Table 2.

Significant factors with a potential influence on surgical and general complications, as well as on the perioperative mortality rate after esophagectomy for esophageal carcinoma: multivariate analysis (p value).

Surgical complications	General complications	Perioperative Mortality
Surgical procedure (p = 0.0004)	Surgical procedure (p = 0.0001)	Surgical procedure (p = 0.0068)
Tumor location (p = 0.0204)	Packed erythrocyte transfusion (p = 0.0009)	Pulmonary PD (p = 0.0096)
Packed erythrocyte transfusion (p = 0.0493)	Patient age (p = 0.0039)	Packed erythrocyte transfusion (p = 0.0099)
	Nutritional status (p = 0.0284)
	ASA-classification (p = 0.0486)