Table 2. Surgical outcomes (N=59).

Variable	Grasper retraction	Thread retraction	P value
Number of patients	27	32
Gastric mobilization time (min), median [range]	56 [44–75]	50 [38–77]	0.005
Gastric mobilization blood loss (mL), median [range]	9 [5–14]	7 [5–12]	0.573
Dissected lymph nodes, median [range]	10 [7–16]	10 [7–16]	0.386
Postoperative complications	16	13	0.942
Anastomotic leakage	4 (15%)	3 (9%)
Pneumonia	4 (15%)	3 (9%)
Wound infection	0	1 (3%)
Hoarseness	8 (30%)	6 (19%)