TABLE 4.
Number of surgeries, endoscopic surgery, and mortality rates according to the selected 115 gastrointestinal operative procedures in 2018 (esophagus)
| Organ | Degree of difficulty | Procedure | No. surgeries | No. Endoscopic surgeries/ rate (%) | No. postoperative complications*/rate (%) | No. postoperative 30‐d mortalities /rate (%) | No. postoperative 30‐d mortalities/rate (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esophagus | Low | Cervical periesophageal abscess drainage | 40 | 5/12.5 | 13/32.5 | 2/5.0 | 2/5.0 |
| Med | Esophageal suture (perforation, injury) | 211 | 22/10.4 | 81/38.4 | 9/4.3 | 12/5.7 | |
| Med | Thoracic periesophageal abscess drainage | 27 | 1/3.7 | 15/55.6 | 1/3.7 | 3/11.1 | |
| Med | Esophageal foreign body extraction | 36 | 2/5.6 | 9/25.0 | 1/2.8 | 2/5.6 | |
| Med | Esophageal diverticulum resection | 53 | 26/49.1 | 2/3.8 | 0/0.0 | 0/0 | |
| Med | Benign esophageal tumor removal | 76 | 48/63.2 | 5/6.6 | 0/0 | 1/1.3 | |
| Med | Esophageal resection (removal only) | 687 | 403/58.7 | 102/14.8 | 12/1.7 | 31/4.5 | |
| Med | Esophageal reconstruction: reconstruction only (gastric tube reconstruction) | 647 | 372/57.5 | 157/24.3 | 7/1.1 | 15/2.3 | |
| Med | Esophageal fistula construction | 192 | 69/35.9 | 56/29.2 | 11/5.7 | 22/11.5 | |
| Med | Esophagocardioplasty | 306 | 210/68.6 | 19/6.2 | 2/0.7 | 2/0.7 | |
| Med | Achalasia surgery | 232 | 162/69.8 | 2/0.9 | 0/0 | 0/0 | |
| High | Esophagectomy | 6207 | 3788/61.0 | 1420/22.9 | 53/0.9 | 115/1.9 | |
| High | Esophageal reconstruction: reconstruction only (colon reconstruction) | 31 | 15/48.4 | 10/32.3 | 0/0 | 2/6.5 | |
| High | Esophageal bypass | 152 | 18/11.8 | 55/36.2 | 6/3.9 | 18/11.8 | |
| High | Bronchoesophageal fistula surgery | 3 | 1/33.3 | 2/66.7 | 0/0 | 0/0 | |
| High | Secondary esophageal reconstruction | 386 | 39/10.1 | 117/30.3 | 4/1.0 | 21/5.4 |