Comparison of different methods of splenic hilar lymph node dissection for advanced upper- and/or middle-third gastric cancer

Table 4 Pairwise comparisons of operative parameters and morbidity

	Pvalue*
	In situ vs splenectomy	In situ vs Ex situ	Splenectomy vs Ex situ
No. of harvested SHLNs	0.154	0.015	0.755
Postoperative hospital stay	0.002	0.832	<0.001
Blood loss volume	0.058	0.388	0.007
Postoperative complication rate	0.047	0.239	0.005

SHLNs splenic hilar lymph nodes, LNs lymph nodes
*Bonferroni correction was carried out. P < 0.017 (two-sided) was considered significant

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