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Table 1 Patients’ demographic data and preoperative symptoms

From: Comparison of end-to-side hand-sewn and side-to-side stapled cervical esophagogastric anastomosis in patients with lower thoracic esophageal cancer undergoing transhiatal esophagectomy: an Iranian retrospective cohort study

Anastomosis type

Hand-sewn

(n = 271)

Stapled anastomosis

(n = 162)

P value

Sex

Female

85 (31.36%)

100 (61.72%)

0.08

Male

186 (68.64%)

62 (38.28%)

Age (year)

65.44 ± 19.11

62.62 ± 20.19

0.338

Preoperative complaints

Dysphagia

271 (100%)

162 (100%)

1

Heart burn

130 (47.97%)

87 (53.7%)

0.24

Weight loss

100 (36.9%)

54 (33.33%)

0.45

Odynophagia

75 (27.67%)

68 (41.97%)

0.482

Tumor type

SCC

250 (92.25%)

135 (83.33%)

0.004

Adenocarcinoma

21 (7.74%)

27 (16.66%)

Stage of tumor

1

54 (19.92%)

19 (11.72%)

0.01

2

140 (51.66%)

78 (48.14%)

3

77 (28.41%)

65 (40.12%)

  1. Patients’ demographic data and preoperative symptoms patients underwent hand-sewn and stapled anastomosis groups