Impacts of trans-anal tube placement in patients with sigmoid colon cancer: Risk verification analysis using inverse probability weighting analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Anastomotic leakage (AL) is a serious postoperative complication that affects short- and long-term outcomes. The use of a trans-anal drainage tube (TDT) is reported to prevent AL in rectal cancer patients, but its value in sigmoid colon cancer patients is unknown.

Methods

Admitted to the study were 379 patients who underwent surgery for sigmoid colon cancer between 2016 and 2020. Patients were divided into two groups according to the placement (n = 197) or nonplacement of a TDT (n = 182). To determine the factors affecting the association between TDT placement and AL, we estimated average treatment effects by stratifying each factor using the inverse probability of treatment weighting method. The association between prognosis and AL was evaluated in each identified f

SUBMITTER: Tominaga T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10043774 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature