Table 3. Surgical outcomes among single-port and multi-port patients.
| Outcome variables | All patients (n=98) |
Propensity-matched patients (n=58) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-port (n=52) | Multi-port (n=46) | P value | Single-port (n=29) | Multi-port (n=29) | P value | ||
| No. of lymph nodes retrieved | 19.20±10.73 | 17.70±10.50 | 0.489 | 19.46±10.96 | 18.79±11.97 | 0.826 | |
| Blood loss, mL | 63.27±78.38 | 60.22±50.44 | 0.817 | 66.38±93.43 | 55.52±49.40 | 0.583 | |
| Hospital stay, day | 5.77±1.98 | 6.93±2.17 | 0.007* | 6.17±2.28 | 6.66±2.38 | 0.434 | |
| Length of wound, cm | 3.62±0.74 | 4.58±1.02 | <0.001* | 3.71±0.74 | 4.36±0.61 | <0.001* | |
| Operation time, min | 3.31±0.97 | 3.46±0.93 | 0.425 | 3.48±1.00 | 3.26±0.83 | 0.358 | |
| Complication rate, % | 44 (89.80) | 37 (80.43) | 0.198 | 22 (84.62) | 23 (79.31) | 0.733 | |
*, statistically significant.