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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery

From: Retrospective study of an incisional hernia after laparoscopic colectomy for colorectal cancer

Variable

N = 470 (%)

Age, in years, median [IQRa]

71 [39–99]

Female sex, n (%)

199 (42)

BMIb, kg/m2, median [IQRa]

22.7 [12.4–47.2]

Diabetes, n (%)

89 (19)

Pulmonary disease, n (%)

35 (7)

Previous surgery

91

Tumor sites: Right/ Left / Rectum

117/ 126/ 227

Tumor length, mm, median [IQR]

35 [0–167]

PNIc, median [IQR]

50.1 [23.2–72.2]

SSId, n (%)

25 (5)

  1. aIQR, interquartile range; bBMI, body mass index; cPNI, prognostic nutritional index (calculated as 10 × serum albumin [g/dL] + 0.005 × total lymphocyte count [/mm3]); dSSI, surgical site infection