Minilaparotomy to rectal cancer has higher overall survival rate and earlier short-term recovery

Table 2 Surgical and pathological findings for the mini-laparotomy and traditional laparotomy groups

	Minilaparotomy	Traditional laparotomy	P value
TNM stage			0.838
Stage I	47 (11.5)	119 (11.8)
Stage II	127 (31.0)	320 (31.8)
Stage III	151 (36.8)	379 (37.7)
Stage IV	85 (20.7)	187 (18.6)
Differentiation			0.579
Good	105 (25.6)	240 (23.9)
Moderate	172 (42.0)	411 (40.9)
Poor	133 (32.4)	354 (35.2)
Histologic types			0.277
Adenocarcinoma	337	811
Mucinous adenocacinoma	69	164
Squamous carcinoma	4	30
Operation types			0.640
High anterior resection	20 (4.9)	38 (3.8)
Low anterior resection	124 (30.2)	284 (28.3)
Ultralow anterior resection	189 (46.1)	482 (48.0)
Colo-anal anastomosis	77 (18.8)	201 (20.0)
Volume of bleeding (mL)	78.5 ± 30.0	80.8 ± 28.5	0.940
Operation time (min)	115.5 ± 35.8	114.6 ± 33.4	0.217
Lymph node counts	12.4	12.7	0.796
Proximal margin of distance (cm)	3.5	3.3	0.105
Distal margin of distance (cm)	7.0	6.9	0.780

TNM: Tumor-node-metastasis. Data are presented as n (%) or mean ± SD.