Table 2 Surgical outcomes
Outcome | Normal | Manual | Device | P | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | % | Mean | SD | No. | % | Mean | SD | No. | % | Mean | SD | ||||
Gastrectomy | 0.64 | ||||||||||||||
Distal | 71 | 68.3 | 77 | 74.0 | 75 | 72.1 | |||||||||
Total | 33 | 31.7 | 27 | 26.0 | 29 | 27.9 | |||||||||
Surgical time, minutes | 197.5 | 26.7 | 203.5 | 33.0 | 202.0 | 23.8 | 0.51 | ||||||||
Number of harvested LNs | 24.2 | 7.6 | 36.6 | 10.5 | 35.2 | 12.0 | <0.0001 | ||||||||
Number of positive LNs | 3.5 | 5.1 | 4.1 | 6.5 | 3.9 | 6.6 | 0.99 | ||||||||
Time consumption of LNs examination | 52.3 | 4.3 | 15 | 3.1 | <0.0001 | ||||||||||