Pelvic Exenteration: Experience from a Rural Cancer Center in Developing World

Table 3

Acute toxicity within 30 days of surgery.

	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Grade 4	Grade 5
Intraoperative bowel/ureter/venous injury	0	0	0	0	0
Wound infection	1	4	2	0	0
Colonic fistula	0	0	0	0	0
Small intestinal obstruction	0	0	0	0	0
Ureteric anastomotic leak	0	0	0	0	0
Postoperative hemorrhage	0	0	1	0	0
Ventricular arrhythmia	1	0	0	0	0
Skin ulceration^*	0	0	0	0	0
Rise in serum creatinine	0	2	0	0	0
Metabolic acidosis	1	0	1	0	0
Sepsis	2	0	0	0	1
Hyponatremia	16	NA	6	0	0
Hypernatremia	3	1	0	0	0
Hypokalemia	13	7	1	0	0
Hyperkalemia	0	1	1	0	0
Hypomagnesemia	0	0	0	0	0
Anemia	16	10	4	0	0
Thromboembolic event^**	0	1	0	0	0
Myocardial infarction	0	0	0	1	0

Numbers depicted are numbers of patients. ^*Ulceration of skin due to pressure ulcer. ^**The event was deep venous thrombosis.