Table 5.
Postoperative complications.
| Characteristics | All patients |
Propensity-matched patients |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RADG | LADG | P | RADG | LADG | P | |
| (n = 67) | (n = 135) | (n = 67) | (n = 67) | |||
| Postoperative complication | ||||||
| Chyle leak | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Pulmonary infection | 1 | 2 | 1.000 | 1 | 2 | 1.000 |
| Gastroparesis | 1 | 2 | 1.000 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 |
| Anastomotic bleeding | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 |
| Incision infection | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Overall complications (%) | 3 (4.5%) | 6 (4.4%) | 1.000 | 3 (4.5%) | 4 (5.9%) | 1.000 |
| Clavien–Dindo classification | ||||||
| Grade I (%) | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Grade II (%) | 2 | 3 | 1.000 | 2 | 3 | 1.000 |
| Grade III (%) | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 |
| Grade ≥ IV (%) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
RADG, robot-assisted distal gastrectomy; LADG, laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy.