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Table 6 Postoperative infectious complications

From: Outcomes of esophagectomy after chemotherapy with biweekly docetaxel plus cisplatin and fluorouracil for advanced esophageal cancer: a retrospective cohort analysis

 

DCF (%), N = 37

bDCF (%), N = 22

p value

Overall infectious disease

5 (13.5)

7 (31.8)

0.091

 Pneumonia

5 (13.5)

2 (9.1)

0.612

 Wound infection

0

2 (9.1)

0.062

 C. difficile enteritis

0

3 (13.6)

0.021

Clavien–Dindo classification

  

0.217

 Grade I

0

0

 

 Grade II

4

7

 

 Grade IIIb

1

0

 
  1. C. difficile, Clostridium difficile