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Table 3 The patients’ intraoperative and postoperative parameters and comparisons of them between the two groups

From: Prognostic significance of the total number of harvested lymph nodes for lymph node-negative gastric cancer patients

Intraoperative and postoperative parameters

Group A (HLNs <22; N = 157)

Group B (HLNs ≥22; N = 242)

P-value

Operation duration, min, median (IQR)

200 (175–250)

200 (165–240)

0.430

Blood loss volume, mL, median (IQR)

100 (100–200)

100 (100–200)

0.096

Postoperative hospital stay, days, median (IQR)

12 (10–17)

12 (10–15)

0.142

Complication rate, n (%)

20 (12.7)

26 (10.8)

0.552

Reoperation, n (%)

4 (2.5)

6 (2.5)

0.966

Mortality rate, n (%)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

1.000

  1. HLNs harvested lymph nodes, IQR interquartile range (25th and 75th percentiles)