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Table 1.

Characteristics of patients

Age	Average, 67.8 years (ranged from 52 to 90 years)
Sex	Male, 22 cases female, 28 cases
Tumor location	Cecum, 3 cases ascending, 2 cases transverse, 1 case
	Descending, 2 cases sigmoid, 7 cases rectum, 27 cases
Histological type	Tubular adenocarcinoma, 48 cases
	(well, 12 cases well-mod., 2 cases mod., 34 cases)
	Mucinous adenocarcinoma, 1 case
	Signet-ring cell, 1 case
pT^a	pT1, 4 cases pT2, 5 cases pT3, 37 cases pT4, 4 cases
pStage^a	I, 7 cases II, 22 cases (IIa, 19 cases IIb, 3 cases)
	III, 15 cases (IIIa, 2 cases IIIb, 10 cases IIIc, 3 cases) IV, 6 cases

^aTMN classification (UICC)