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Table 1 The patients characteristics

From: Treatment of intrathoracic anastomotic leak after esophagectomy with the sump drainage tube

Patients’ characteristics

Conventional treatments (group 1) (n = 20)

New treatments (group 2) (n = 23)

P value

Age

64.2 ± 4.8

65.1 ± 4.2

P = 0.259

Gender

 Male

12

16

P = 0.733

 Female

8

7

 

Cancer type

 Esophageal cancer

13

15

P = 0.780

 Esophagogastric junction cancer

7

8

 

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

5

6

P = 0.936

Comorbidity

 Hypertension

6

7

P = 0.895

 Diabetes

4

5

P = 0.936

Anastomosis location

 Cervical anastomosis

8

15

P = 0.818

 Intrathoracic anastomosis

10

8

 

Operation method

 McKeown esophagectomy

8

15

P = 0.611

 Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy

4

4

 

 Sweet esophagectomy

6

4

 

Timing of diagnosis

6.3

5.8

P = 0.09