Laparoscopic management of gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors: A retrospective 10-year single-center experience

Table 2 Comparison between favorable gastrointestinal stromal tumor location and unfavorable gastrointestinal stromal tumor location

	Unfavorable area	Favorable area	P value
Age (yr)	54.29 ± 12.29	55.59 ± 12.4	0.486
BMI	22.37 ± 3.28	23.17 ± 3.01	0.100
Tumor size (cm)	3.37 ± 1.85	4.07 ± 2.23	0.020
Operative time (min)	83.86 ± 44.41	80.77 ± 36.46	0.627
Estimated blood loss (mL)	27.74 ± 45.2	29.59 ± 41.18	0.780
Conversion	0	0
Application of endoscopy during surgery	23 (20.72)	4 (5.63)	0.005
Tumor rupture during surgery	1 (0.90)	2 (2.82)	0.322
Postoperative complications	4 (3.74)	5 (7.04)	0.325
Postoperative exhaust time	2.64 ± 0.9	2.54 ± 0.86	0.452
Time to liquid diet (d)	3.05 ± 1.62	2.89 ± 1.79	0.516
Time to semiliquid diet (d)	4.17 ± 1.75	3.92 ± 1.83	0.345
Postoperative hospital stay (d)	7.17 ± 4.1	5.69 ± 2.46	0.007
Recurrence	3 (3.03)	0 (0.00)	0.447
5-yr overall survival rate	98 (98.99)	61 (98.39)	0.623

BMI: Body mass index. Data are presented as n (%) or mean ± SD.