Comparison of outcomes of laparoscopic-assisted and total laparoscopic right hemicolectomy for right-sided colon cancer

Table 1 General clinical data and surgery-related indexes of the two groups (n = 109), mean ± SD

Basic information		Observation group (n = 50)	Control group (n = 59)	P value
Sex	Male	23	29	0.743
	Female	27	30
Age (years)	< 60 years	30	35	0.943
	≥ 60 years	20	24
TNM stage	I	5	7	0.744
	II	14	22
	III	31	30
Accompanying diseases	High blood pressure	13	18	0.603
	Diabetes	6	8	0.808
	Coronary heart disease	5	5	0.783
BMI (kg/m2)		24.69 ± 5.71	25.66 ± 6.06	0.393
Operation time (minutes)		171.1 ± 11.0	161.4 ± 9.1	0.000
Intraoperative blood volume (mL)		154.6 ± 21.9	179.8 ± 23.5	0.000
Postoperative hospital stays (days)		6.43 ± 0.63	7.59 ± 2.19	0.000
Postoperative drainage time (days)		5.18 ± 0.40	5.31 ± 0.78	0.296
Time to anal exhaust (days)		2.49 ± 0.33	2.68 ± 0.31	0.004
Length of resected specimens (cm)		37.8 ± 1.5	38.3 ± 1.6	0.083
Average number of lymph nodes dissected		25.8 ± 2.4	25.9 ± 1.6	0.691

TNM: Tumor-node-metastasis; BMI: Body mass index.