TABLE 7.
Number of surgeries, endoscopic surgery, and mortality rates according to the selected 115 gastrointestinal operative procedures in 2018 (rectum and anus)
| Organ | Degree of difficulty | Procedure | No. surgeries | No. Endoscopic surgeries/ rate (%) | No. postoperative complications*/rate (%) | No. postoperative 30‐d mortalities/rate (%) | No. postoperative 90‐d mortalities/rate (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rectum | Low | Transanal rectal tumor removal | 3751 | 103/2.7 | 22/0.6 | 2/0.1 | 3/0.1 |
| Low | Proctocele surgery (transanal) | 2870 | 29/1.0 | 49/1.7 | 9/0.3 | 14/0.5 | |
| Med | Rectectomy (benign) | 1371 | 118/8.6 | 265/19.3 | 23/1.7 | 43/3.1 | |
| Med | High anterior resection | 10 741 | 7081/65.9 | 744/6.9 | 50/0.5 | 78/0.7 | |
| Med | Hartmann's procedure | 6075 | 1040/17.1 | 1238/20.4 | 309/5.1 | 448/7.4 | |
| Med | Proctocele surgery (abdominoperineal) | 1993 | 1058/53.1 | 31/1.6 | 9/0.5 | 10/0.5 | |
| Med | Malignant anorectal tumor excision (transanal) | 663 | 80/12.1 | 15/2.3 | 1/0.2 | 1/0.2 | |
| Med | Anal sphincteroplasty (by tissue replacement) | 2641 | 15/0.6 | 16/0.6 | 4/0.2 | 6/0.2 | |
| High | Rectectomy (malignant) | 4935 | 3144/63.7 | 660/13.4 | 23/0.5 | 49/1.0 | |
| High | Low anterior resection | 20 636 | 13 825/67.0 | 2454/11.9 | 90/0.4 | 142/0.7 | |
| High | Pelvic evisceration | 441 | 85/19.3 | 121/27.4 | 2/0.5 | 9/2.0 | |
| High | Anorectal malignant tumor excision (posterior approach) | 45 | 5/11.1 | 7/15.6 | 0/0 | 0/0 |