Table 2 Postoperative complications and recurrence rates/ patterns

 Morbidity (CD grade 2 or higher)

19 (30.2%)

6 (13.3%)

0.041

  Pancreatic related

11

0

0.003

  (Pancreatic fistula/abdominal abscess)

(17.4%)

(0%)

  Ileus

2

1

0.767

  Anastomotic leakage

2

3

0.395

  Postoperative bleeding

1

1

0.809

  Anastomotic stenosis

2

0

0.261

  Other

1

1

0.809

 Number of recurrence

22 (34.9%)

15 (33.3%)

0.864

  Borrmann macroscopic type

0.538

   Type 1 or 2

4

4

   Type 3, 4, or 5

18

11

 Peritoneal dissemination

17 (27.0%)

9 (20.0%)

0.403

 Distant metastasis (Liver, lung, abdominal wall)

3 (4.8%)

4 (8.9%)

0.390

 Lymph node metastasis

2 (3.2%)

2 (4.4%)

0.731