Fig. 1.

Course of median daily drainage volumes on postoperative days 1–10 in patients with different grades of lymphatic leakage (no = grade 0; A = grade A; B = grade B; C = grade C lymphatic leakage). Sample sizes for days 1 to 10: grade 0: n = 20, 18, 17, 10, 6, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0; grade A: n = 9, 10, 7, 9, 5, 6, 6, 1, 0, 0; grade B: n = 22, 23, 23, 22, 19, 17, 17, 15, 16, 13; grade C: n = 23, 23, 24, 20, 19, 18, 14, 11, 12, 12. Only medians values with n ≥ 5 are depicted