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Table 4 Surgical complications and morbidity in study population

From: Gastric carcinoma: review of the results of treatment in a community teaching hospital

Surgical complications

%

No. of patients

Secondary morbidity

%

No. of patients

Anastomotic leak

6.0

14

Cardiovascular

8.5

20

Wound infection

2.1

5

Pulmonary

9.8

23

Motility disturbance

3.4

8

Urinary tract infection

3.0

7

Gastrointestinal damage *

4.3

10

Other

9.8

23

  1. * splenic puncture, gastric perforation, hemorrhage