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Postoperative morbidity and mortality for squamous cell carcinoma compared with adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.
| parameter | Squamous cell carcinoma (n = 229) | Adenocarcinoma (n = 150) | p-value |
| - Surgical complications (%) | |||
| - General complications (%) | 37.9 | 33.7 | 0.447 |
| -Total complications (%) | 40.7 | 28.0 | 0.012* |
| - Length of ICU – stay (d) | 68.1 | 57.6 | 0.039* |
| - 30-day-moratlity (%) | |||
| - Mortality (%) | 11 (2–176) | 8 (1–107) | 0.0001* |
| 6.1 | 6.1 | 0.8569 | |
| 15.1 | 6.6 | 0.0001* |
*statistically significant
