Efficacy and outcome of extensive intraoperative peritoneal lavage plus surgery vs surgery alone with advanced gastric cancer patients

Table 2 Outcomes after surgery

Variables	Non-EIPL group, n = 75	EIPL group, n = 75	P value
Type of surgery			0.242
Total	55	61
Distal	20	14
Time, surgery to first flatus in d	4.19 ± 0.99	3.95 ± 0.87	0.108
Postoperative hospital stay in d	15.26 ± 3.10	14.48 ± 1.97	0.072
Abdominal pain	10/75	5/75	0.174
Ileus	15/75	3/75	0.003
Abdominal abscess	9/75	1/75	0.009
Leakage	5/75	2/75	0.246
Bleeding	6/75	3/75	0.302
Neutrophil count as 109/L	10.36 ± 3.32	10.03 ± 3.56	0.552
Lymphocyte cell as 109/L	1.02 ± 0.63	1.00 ± 0.60	0.817
NLR	13.48 ± 8.55	11.87 ± 5.22	0.169
Platelet as 109/L	171.00 ± 59.98	179.73 ± 60.38	0.381

EIPL: Extensive intraoperative peritoneal lavage; NLR: Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio.