Table 3.
Surgical results of 76 rectal cancer patients.
| n (%) | |
|---|---|
| Surgery | |
| Low-anterior resection | 31 (40.8) |
| Restorative proctectomy with coloanal anastomosis | 42 (55.3) |
| Abdominoperineal resection | 3 (3.9) |
| ypT | |
| 0 | 26 (34.2) |
| 1 | 5 (6.6) |
| 2 | 15 (19.7) |
| 3 | 30 (39.5) |
| ypN | |
| 0 | 60 (78.9) |
| 1 | 12 (15.3) |
| 2 | 4 (5.5) |
| Median number of resected nodes* | 8 (2–25) |
| Median number of involved nodes* | 0 (0–5) |
| Lymphovascular invasion | |
| Yes | 8 (10.5) |
| No | 68 (89.5) |
| Perineural invasion | |
| Yes | 9 (11.8) |
| No | 67 (88.2) |
| Tumour differentiation | |
| Well | 13 (17.2) |
| Moderately | 60 (78.9) |
| Poorly | 3 (3.9) |
| Distal-resection margin | |
| Negative | 75 (98.7) |
| Positive | 1 (1.3) |
| Circumferential-resection margin | |
| Negative | 74 (97.4) |
| Positive | 2 (2.6) |
*
Median (range).
ypT, the tumor (T) stage has been determined after neoadjuvant therapy; ypN, the regional lymph nodes (N) stage has been determined after neoadjuvant therapy.