Table 2. Risk factors for anastomotic complications and recurrence of stenosis (5).
| Factor | Complications |
Recurrence |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Univariate |
Multivariate |
Univariate |
Multivariate |
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| P | Hazard ratio | P | Hazard ratio | P | Hazard ratio | P | Hazard ratio | ||||
| Prior tracheostomy (n=59) | 0.043 | 2.6 | – | – | 0.012 | – | – | – | |||
| Mitomycin C (MMC) treatment (n=27) | 0.013 | 3.4 | – | – | 0.026 | 3.2 | – | – | |||
| Not extubated (n=16) | 0.023 | 3.7 | – | – | 0.012 | 4.4 | – | – | |||
| Edema + steroids (n=64) | <0.001 | 4.2 | <0.001 | 6.6 | – | – | – | – | |||
| Stent (n=5) | 0.005 | 27.5 | <0.001 | 178.0 | |||||||
| Laser >3 (n=52) | 0.007 | 3.3 | – | – | |||||||
| Length >3 cm (n=18) | 0.006 | 10.2 | – | – | |||||||
| Vocal cord abnormality (n=11) | 0.001 | 9.9 | 0.003 | 16.8 | |||||||