Table 2. Procedure characteristics and recurrences.

	All lesions	Lesion extending to the dentate line	Lesion distant from the dentate line	P
N	86	24	62
Procedure time, median (range), minutes	119 (20 – 445)	127 (49 – 400)	110 (20 – 445)	0.182
Resection speed, median (range), minutes/cm 2	6.9 (2.0 – 20.4)	7.1 (3.6 – 19.4)	6.6 (2.0 – 20.4)	0.410
Resection, n (%) En bloc Piecemeal	80 (93.0) 6 (7.0 %)	22 (91.7 %) 2 (8.3 %)	58 (93.5 %) 4 (6.5 %)	0.670
R0 resection, n (%) R0 R1/Rx	72 (83.7 %) 14 (16.3 %)	17 (70.8 %) 7 (29.2 %)	55 (88.7 %) 7 (11.3 %)	0.039
Recurrence, n (%) After en bloc resection After piecemeal resection	5 (5.8 %) 1 (1.2 %) 4 (66.7 %)	2 (8.3 %) 1 (4.5 %) 1 (50 %)	3 (4.9 %) 0 3 (75 %)	0.616 0.275