TABLE 4.

Preoperative radiation dose delivered to the subset of patients with distal/GEJ tumors treated with esophagectomies with cervical anastomoses (n = 44)

	Anastomotic complication		p‐value
	Yes	No
	n = 35 (79.6%)	n = 9 (20.5%)
	Median (IQR)	Median (IQR)
Entire stomach
Mean dose (Gy)	27.00 (11.46–34.57)	25.61 (21.42–31.75)	0.94
Maximum dose (Gy)	48.21 (47.22–51.07)	48.62 (47.58–49.73)	0.57
Minimum dose (Gy)	3.33 (0.66–8.86)	1.95 (1.07–5.71)	0.83
V20 (%)	68 (26–91)	53 (51–84)	1.00
V30 (%)	34 (9–66)	33 (24–56)	0.78
Fundus
Mean dose (Gy)	34.19 (21.07–44.45)	33.26 (31.29–36.24)	0.87
Maximum dose (Gy)	47.57 (46.17–48.78)	48.04 (47.05–48.62)	0.36
Minimum dose (Gy)	13.51 (5.83–21.19)	14.43 (8.74–18.34)	0.94
V20 (%)	96 (47–100)	92 (73–100)	0.79
V30 (%)	64 (11–93)	56 (44–84)	0.57
Greater curvature
Mean dose (Gy)	22.76 (7.83–32.55)	22.39 (17.74–24.86)	0.85
Maximum dose (Gy)	47.30 (42.12–48.86)	47.00 (45.07–49.32)	0.65
Minimum dose (Gy)	4.16 (0.51–10.28)	1.99 (1.07–6.32)	0.65
V20 (%)	59 (11–92)	50 (44–91)	0.88
V30 (%)	26 (1–58)	20 (18–24)	0.95
Lesser curvature
Mean dose (Gy)	35.45 (16.97–42.63)	32.96 (28.83–40.68)	0.94
Maximum dose (Gy)	48.09 (47.11–49.93)	48.18 (46.66–49.73)	0.78
Minimum dose (Gy)	10.57 (1.33–16.57)	6.66 (2.73–12.80)	0.94
V20 (%)	93 (29–100)	82 (75–100)	0.83
V30 (%)	62 (24–87)	63 (37–87)	0.72
Pylorus/antrum
Mean dose (Gy)	16.94 (1.52–27.89)	12.84 (2.52–33.38)	0.83
Maximum dose (Gy)	36.80 (2.29–46.51)	26.37 (11.58–44.00)	0.92
Minimum dose (Gy)	5.04 (0.85–12.43)	3.67 (1.90–12.02)	0.78
V20 (%)	31 (0–74)	4 (0–98)	0.91
V30 (%)	3 (0–34)	0 (0–81)	0.94

Abbreviations: Gy, Gray; V20, the percent volume of the structure receiving at least 20 Gy; IQR, interquartile range; V30, the percent volume of the structure receiving at least 30 Gy.