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Table 3 Postoperative Complications

From: The optimal extent of lymph node dissection in gastroesophageal junctional cancer: retrospective case control study

Ā 

Group A (Nā€‰=ā€‰261)

Group B (Nā€‰=ā€‰29)

Value

All complication

79 (30.3%)

11 (37.9%)

0.397

Severe complication (above CD grade III)a

31 (11.9%)

4 (13.8%)

0.764

Anastomosis related complication (leakage, stricture)

23 (8.8%)

5 (17.2%)

0.145

Respiratory realated

ā€ƒComplication (pneumonia, pleural effusion, pneumothorax

19 (7.3%)

7 (24.1%)

0.003

ā€ƒPostoperative mortality

3 (1.1%)

1 (3.4%)

0.345

  1. aCD clavien dindo classification