Table 3.

Short and long term surgical outcomes

	Group I (n = 16)	Group II (n = 5)	p value
Time to initial enteral feeding, day a	6 (4–7)	7 (6–9)	0.4
Time to full enteral feeding, day a	20 (14–32)	38 (30–45)	0.2
Operation time, min a	110 (93–125)	111 (99–123)	> 0.99
Blood loss, mL a, b	39 (25–55)	84 (54–175)	0.3
Hospitalization days, day a, b	57 (35–103)	84 (51–138)	0.5
Short-term complications, n (%)	3 (19%)	1 (20%)	> 0.99
Leakage	1 (6%)	0 (0%)	> 0.99
Stricture	1 (6%)	0 (0%)	> 0.99
Obstruction	1 (6%)	0 (0%)	> 0.99
Sepsis	0 (0%)	1 (20%)	0.2
Long-term complications, n (%)
Obstruction	2 (13%)	0 (0%)	> 0.99
Abdominal incisional hernia	0 (0%)	1 (20%)	0.2
Postoperative mortality	0 (0%)	1 (20%)	0.2

^a Median (interquartile range)

^b The case of drainage only was excluded.