Does Extending the Waiting Time of Low-Rectal Cancer Surgery after Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Increase the Perioperative Complications?

Table 3

Perioperative results.

Variable	Group A; (≤8 weeks)	Group B; (>8 weeks)	value
Operative time (min)	277 (234–320)	255 (223–286)	0.43
Estimated blood loss (mL)	374 (196–551)	360 (239–481)	0.90
Blood transfusion (units)	0.4 (0.0–0.9)	0.3 (0.4–0.5)	0.50
Time to bowel movement (days)	3.0 (2.3–3.6)	3.3 (2.7–4.0)	0.51
Time to full diet intake (days)	4.0 (3.0–5.0)	3.7 (3.1–4.2)	0.58
Postoperative LOS (days)	8.0 (6.0–10.1)	8.6 (6.0–11.1)	0.79

Values are presented as mean (95% confidence interval).