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. 2019 Sep 11;102(2):120–132. doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2019.0113

Table 3.

Postoperative complications in patients who underwent oesophagectomy between the non-sarcopenic and sarcopenic groups.

Study	Surgical^a n (%)	Anastomotic leakage n (%)	Respiratory^b n (%)	Infections^c n (%)	Cardiovascular n (%)	Overall complications n (%)	Clavien–Dindo n (%)
							I–II	III–V
Ida et al (2015)²²	12 (9) vs 8 (6)	12 (9) vs 8 (6)	9 (7) vs 21 (15)	20 (15) vs 16 (11)	6 (4) vs 5 (3)	N/A	N/A	N/A
Harada et al (2016)²¹	69 (40) vs 35 (42)	24 (14) vs 21 (25)	31 (18) vs 13 (15)	52 (37) vs 31 (30)	3(2) vs 2(2)	113 (66) vs 55 (65)	52 (31) vs 21 (25)	61 (35) vs 34 (40)
Tamandl et al (2016)¹³	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Grotenhuis et al (2016)¹⁴	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	45 (68) vs 42 (78)	30 (45) vs 26 (48)	15 (23) vs 16 (30)
Makiura et al (2016)²³	9 (12) vs 6 (21)	N/A	13 (17) vs 11 (38)	10 (13) vs 5 (17)	17 (22) vs 9 (31)	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nishigori et al (2016)²⁵	8 (16) vs 33 (22)	4 (8) vs 20 (13)	6 (8) vs 52 (13)	10 (20) vs 26 (17)	4 (8) vs 17 (11)	24 (48) vs 79 (53)	15 (30) vs 41 (28)	13 (26) vs 41 (27)
Paireder et al (2016)²⁶	8 (16) vs 14 (18)	8 (16) vs 9 (11)	4 (8) vs 11 (14)	N/A	N/A	10 (20) vs 18 (23)	N/A	N/A
Nakashima et al (2018)²⁴	28 (16) vs 42 (28)	28 (16) vs 42 (28)	13 (8) vs 18 (11)	N/A	N/A	53 (31) vs 59 (38)	N/A	N/A

^aAnastomotic insufficiency, bleeding, chylothorax etc.

^bPneumonia, failure etc.

^cSurgical site, sepsis etc.N/A, not available.