Table 3 Operative details and postoperative hospital stay

From: Randomised study of systematic lymphadenectomy in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer macroscopically confined to the pelvis

Surgical outcome

No lymph. (130 patients)

Lymph. (138 patients)

P

Median operating time (min) (25th–75th percentiles)

150 (120–180)

240 (210–300)

<.0001

Missing data

6

17

 

Median blood loss (ml) (25th–75th percentiles)

300 (200–550)

600 (400–900)

<.0001

Missing data

9

18

 

Patients transfused (%)

21.85

35.5

0.012

Median hospital stay (days) (25th–75th percentiles)

6 (5–7)

7 (6–9)

0.003

Missing data

9

14

 
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