Table 1.
Demographics, clinicopathologic data, and surgical outcomes of patients undergoing laparoscopic autonomic nerve-preserving surgery for sigmoid colon cancer (n = 112)
| Parameter | Valuea |
|---|---|
| Age (years) | 55.8 ± 6.4 |
| Sex (M/F) | 58/54 |
| Body mass index (weight/height2, kg/m2), mean (range) | |
| Male | 23.4 (20.3∼31.6) |
| Female | 24.8 (22.0∼32.5) |
| ASA class | |
| I | 62 |
| II | 46 |
| III | 4 |
| TME stage (pathologic) | |
| I | 8 |
| II | 54 |
| III | 50 |
| Operative time (minutes) | 184.4 ± 44.8 |
| Conversion rate | .9% (n = 1) |
| Blood loss (mL) | 84.5 ± 24.0 |
| Postoperative ileus (hours) | 48.0 ± 8.4 |
| Hospitalization (days) | 8.0 ± 2.0 |
| Postoperative pain (visual analog scale) | 3.5 ± .4 |
| Postoperative complication | |
| Total | 7.1% (n = 8) |
| Wound infection | 4 |
| Deep vein thrombosis | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 1 |
| Anastomotic leakage | 2 |
| No. of lymph nodes collected | 14.4 ± 4.0 |
| Tumor recurrence rate | 8.0% (n = 9) |
ASA, American Society of Anesthesiology; TNM, tumor, node, metastasis system.
a Continuous data are presented as mean ± SD.