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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 2013 Mar 1;42(2):337–357. doi: 10.1016/j.gtc.2013.01.010

Table 3.

Survival benefit of palliative resection compared with laparotomy with or without bypass

Author Number
of
Patients		 Resected
Patients		 30-Day
Mortality		 30-Day
Morbidity		 Unresected
Median Survival		 Resected
Median Survival
Hartgrink et al,52 2002 285 156 (54.7%) 12% 38% 5.4 mo 8.1 mo (P<.001)
Samarasam et al,53 2006 151 107 (70.9%) NR NR 12 mo 24 mo (P = .0003)
Saidi et al,54 2006 105 24 (22.9%) 8.3% 33.3% 5.5 mo (mean) 13.2 mo (mean) (P = .006)
Huang et al,55 2010 516 365 (70.7%) 3.3% 18% 4.5 mo 10.2 mo (P<.001)
Zhang et al,56 2011 377 197 (52.3%) 3.0% 24.3% 5.8 mo bypass 4.7 mo no bypass 16.4 mo (P<.05)

Abbreviation NR, not reported.