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. 2008 Mar 26;15(6):1609–1616. doi: 10.1245/s10434-008-9861-x

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.