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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 16.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2012 May;19(5):1386–1393. doi: 10.1245/s10434-012-2241-6

TABLE 3.

Postoperative complications (n = 282)

Minor complications
(grade 1/2)
Major complications
(grade 3–5)
Overall morbidity (n, %) 102 (36.2) 70 (24.8)
Wound infection (n, %) (n = 281) 19 (6.7) 39 (13.8)
Sepsis (n, %) 38 (13.5) 7 (2.5)
Postoperative bleeding (n, %) 16 (5.7) 3 (1.1)
Cardiac (n, %) 37 (13.1) 4 (1.4)
Pulmonary (n, %) 58 (20.6) 21 (7.5)
Renal (n, %) 31 (11) 3 (1.1)
Biliary leak (n, %) 0 1 (0.4)
Pancreatic leak (n, %) 9 (3.2) 1 (0.4)
DVT or PE (n, %) 10 (3.5) 4 (1.4)
Enterocutaneous fistula (n, %) (n = 257) 5 (1.8) 1 (0.4)
Anastomotic leak (n, %) (n = 271) 5 (1.8) 6 (2.1)