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Table 1 Summary table of studies that have reported postoperative results of elderly patients operated on for colon cancer by laparoscopy or laparotomy

From: Multicenter phase III randomized trial comparing laparoscopy and laparotomy for colon cancer surgery in patients older than 75 years: the CELL study, a Fédération de Recherche en Chirurgie (FRENCH) trial

Authors

Year

No. of patients

Study population, years

Global postoperative morbidity (%)

Medical morbidity (%)

Cardiopulmonary morbidity (%)

Laparoscopy

Laparotomy

Laparoscopy

Laparotomy

Laparoscopy

Laparotomy

Bader [37]

1986

96

> 75

/

39.0

/

17.0

/

9,4

Bardram et al. [38]

2000

50

> 75

16.0

/

2.0

/

0,0

/

Stocchi et al. [39]

2000

42

> 75

14.3

33.3

11.9

26.2

9,5

21,4

Sklow et al. [40]

2003

39

> 75

31.0

31.0

12.9

17.9

7,7

10,3

Latkauskas et al. [41]

2005

116

> 75

/

32.7

/

19.0

/

NR

Hermans et al. [42]

2010

74

> 75

/

43.2

/

51.4

/

14,0

She et al. [43]

2013

434

> 75

20.6

28.6

19.6

24.9

12,7

19,3

Total

 

851

 

20.3

33.2

15.0

25.4

9.7

16.0

  1. NR Not reported