Table 1.
Crude anastomotic leak rates between high and low anterior resections and results where straight colo-anal anastomoses and colonic pouches have been used after low anterior resection
| Study | High anterior | Low anterior | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthiessen et al. (2004)10 | 4% | 24% | ||
| Law & Chu (2004)11 | 1.3% | 8.1% | ||
| Platell et al. (2006)12 | 2.4% | 6.9% | ||
| Katory et al. (2008)4 | 0.7% | – | ||
| Straight colorectal anastomosis | Colonic pouch | |||
| *Heriot et al. (2006)13 | – | 13.6% | 9.2% (NS) | |
| Jeyarajah et al. (2008)14 | – | – | 7.9% |
*
Meta-analysis; NS, not significant.