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The dark side of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer patients aged 75 years or older

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Purpose

The rate of postoperative morbidity and mortality is reportedly high in patients aged ≥ 75 years with colorectal cancer (CRC). In such patients, a comparison of the short-term outcome between open method and laparoscopy has not been clearly defined in Taiwan. We aimed to compare postoperative morbidity and mortality parameters after open method and laparoscopy in CRC patients aged ≥ 75 years.

Methods

We retrospectively analyzed patients who underwent surgery for CRC from February 2009 to September 2015 at the Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan and analyzed their clinicopathological factors. Postoperative morbidity and mortality were analyzed for evaluating if laparoscopic surgery offers more favorable outcomes than open surgery in the elderly.

Results

A total of 1133 patients were enrolled and analyzed in this study; they were divided into two groups (open method vs. laparoscopy = 797 vs. 336). The anastomotic leakage rate was significantly higher in the laparoscopy group than in the open method group (3.3 vs. 0.9%, p = 0.003). Overall postoperative morbidity and mortality rates showed no significant difference between these two groups. Postoperative hospital stay was significantly shorter in the laparoscopy group than in the open method group (10.4 ± 8.7 vs. 13.8 ± 13.5 days, p < 0.001).

Conclusions

Our results suggest that laparoscopy in patients aged ≥ 75 years with CRC had higher anastomosis leakage rate compared with open surgery but is acceptable and offers the benefit of a shorter hospital stay over open surgery.

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  1. Colorectal Section, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, No. 5, Fuxing St., Guishan Dist, Taoyuan City, 33305, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Yih-Jong Chern, Wen-Sy Tsai, Hsin-Yuan Hung, Jinn-Shiun Chen, Reiping Tang, Jy-Ming Chiang, Chien-Yuh Yeh, Yau-Tong You, Pao-Shiu Hsieh, Sum-Fu Chiang, Cheng-Chou Lai, Geng-Pin Lin, Yu-Ren Hsu & Jeng-Fu You

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    Yih-Jong Chern, Wen-Sy Tsai, Hsin-Yuan Hung, Jinn-Shiun Chen, Reiping Tang, Jy-Ming Chiang, Chien-Yuh Yeh, Yau-Tong You, Pao-Shiu Hsieh, Sum-Fu Chiang, Cheng-Chou Lai, Geng-Pin Lin, Yu-Ren Hsu & Jeng-Fu You

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Chern, YJ., Tsai, WS., Hung, HY. et al. The dark side of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer patients aged 75 years or older. Int J Colorectal Dis 33, 1367–1371 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00384-018-3130-7

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