Table 1.

Patient and tumor characteristics

	Included	Measured
Total number of patients	52	32
Gender
Male	29	19
Female	23	13
Age
Median	59	61
Interquartile range	50–68	50–68
Tumor location
Appendix	1	0
Cecum	7	2
Colon	24	17
Sigmoid	13	8
Rectum	7	5
Stage after histopathologya evaluation
pT0	2	1
pT1	0	0
pT2	2	2
pT3	22	14
pT4	24	13
Recurrence	2	2
Exclusion
No tumor at surface	4	–
Surgery at another hospital	1	–
Theater time	2	–
Too extensive disease	6	–
Changes in schedule	7	–

^aT stages include staging after pathological evaluation