Morbidity and mortality after esophagectomy for esophageal carcinoma: A risk analysis

Table 1 Factors with a potential influence on surgical and general complications, as well as on the perioperative mortality rate after esophagectomy for esophageal carcinoma: univariate analysis (p values).

	Surgical complications	General Complications	Perioperative Mortality
Preoperative factors:
- Age	0.8996	0.0073*	0.1349
- Sex	0.7367	0.3396	0.5658
- BMI	0.3710	0.1200	0.0719
- ASA	0.3992	0.0076*	0.0274*
- Nutritional status	0.5093	0.1897	0.2223
- Cardiovascular PD	0.7803	0.0171*	0.0172*
- Pulmonary PD	0.2910	0.0405*	0.0059*
- Hepatopathy	0.1696	0.0282*	0.0165*
- Diabetes mellitus	0.8218	0.0635	0.9430
Intraoperative factors:
- Tumor location	0.0194*	0.0156*	0.0391*
- Surgical procedure	0.0116*	0.0001*	0.0057*
- Packed erythrocyte transfusion	0.1045	0.0006*	0.0022*
Tumor characteristics:
- Tumor size	0.5041	0.1595	0.1502
- R-classification	0.5573	0.3372	0.0439*
- T-category	0.2017	0.0072*	0.0036*
- N-category	0.6805	0.9928	0.0584
- M-category	0.0621	0.8128	0.4359

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