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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 16.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2013 Mar 2;20(4):1056–1062. doi: 10.1245/s10434-012-2791-7

TABLE 2.

Morbidity in patients undergoing extensive cytoreductive surgery

Comparison
group
(n = 222)
Extensive
CRS
(n = 60)
p
value
Intraoperative complications 3 (1.4 %) 1 (1.7 %) 1.0
Overall morbidity 130 (58.6 %) 42 (70 %) 0.1
Grade 3–4 morbidity 51 (23.0 %) 19 (31.7 %) 0.2
60-day mortality 2 (0.9 %) 1 (1.7 %) 0.1
Specific complications, grade ≥3
 Delayed gastric emptying 35 (15.8 %) 4 (6.7 %) 0.09
 Surgical site infection,
 superficial
30 (13.5 %) 9 (15.0 %) 0.8
 Surgical site infection, deep 19 (8.6 %) 6 (10 %) 0.8
 Pulmonary insufficiency 15 (6.8 %) 6 (10.0 %) 0.4
 Ileus >21 days 11 (5.0 %) 5 (8.3 %) 0.3
 Sepsis 5 (2.2 %) 2 (3.3 %) 0.6
 Anastomotic leak 4 (1.8 %) 2 (3.3 %) 0.6
 Thromboembolic event 4 (1.8 %) 0 (0 %) 0.6
 Renal insufficiency 2 (0.9 %) 1 (1.7 %) 0.1
 Enterocutaneous fistula 1 (0.5 %) 0 (0 %) 1.0
 Pancreatic leak 1 (0.5 %) 0 (0 %) 1.0
 Biliary leak 1 (0.5 %) 0 (0 %) 1.0
 Cardiac event 1 (0.5 %) 3 (5.0 %) 0.03
 Hemorrhage 0 (0 %) 3 (5.0 %) 0.009
ICU length of stay, days,
 median (IQR)
2 (1–4) 3 (2–4) 0.006
Time to regular diet, days,
 median (IQR)
7 (6–10) 9.5 (8–12) 0.0006
Reoperation 7 (3.2 %) 5 (8.3 %) 0.1
Hospital length of stay,
 median (IQR)
11.5 (9–15) 14.5 (12–18) 0.0008
Hospital readmission 29 (13.1 %) 10 (16.7 %) 0.5

IQR interquartile range