Table 1.

Characteristics of 341 tumour-nodal-metastasis stages 0-III patients with colonic cancer, operated on with laparascopic complete mesocolic excision resection in a community teaching hospital in Norway in 2007-2015

Variable category	Laparoscopic CME resection, n = 341 (%)
Age in years, mean, (range)	71.9 (28-94)
BMI in kg/m2, mean (range)	25.8 (15-42)
Surgical procedure
Right hemicolectomy	140 (41.1)
Extended right hemicolectomy	49 (14.4)
Left extended hemicolectomy	26 (7.6)
Sigmoid resection	126 (37.0)
TNM stage
Stage 0	8 (2.3)
Stage I	61 (17.9)
Stage II	170 (49.9)
Stage III	102 (29.9)
No. of lymph nodes, mean (range)	17.8 (0-69)
No. of positive lymph nodes, TNM st III, mean (range)	1.2 (0-19)
Length of stay, d, mean (range)	6.7 (2-57)

TNM: Tumour-nodal-metastasis; CME: Complete mesocolic excision; BMI: Body mass index.