Laparoscopic right-sided colon resection for colon cancer—has the control group so far been chosen correctly?

Table 1 Patients characteristics of all right-sided colon resections

Characteristic	Patients total (n = 279)
Characteristic	No.	%
Sex
Male	149	53.4
Female	130	46.6
Age [years]
Median	73.4
Average ± SD	70.6
Range	17.4–92.7
BMI
Median	25.7
Average ± SD	26.2
Range	16.4–49.3
ASA
I	6	2.2
II	139	49.8
III	121	43.4
IV	13	4.6
pUICC stage
0	44	15.8
I	47	16.8
II	77	27.6
III	70	25.1
IV	41	14.7
pT stage
0	44	15.8
1	24	8.6
2	32	11.4
3	127	45.6
4	52	18.6
pN stage
0	182	65.2
1	48	17.2
2	49	17.6
pM stage
0	238	85.3
1	41	14.7
Number lymph nodes resected (n = 272)
Median	29
Average ± SD	31.8
Range	10–73
OP time [min]
Median	142
Average ± SD	152.2
Range	61–443
LOS [days] (n = 254)
Median	12
Average ± SD	15.5
Range	2–83
ICU [days] (n = 252)
Median	1
Average ± SD	2.6
Range	0–41

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