Postoperative 90-day mortality was greater in women than in men, but this difference did not reach statistical significance.
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Surgical Risk and Pathological Results of Emergency Resection in the Treatment of Acutely Obstructing Colorectal Cancers: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
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There was also a nonsignificant trend of laparoscopic resections yielding a larger number of lymph nodes.
While there was an evident trend in the univariate analysis (that nonetheless did not reach statistical significance, likely due to the size of the sample), it is much more difficult to explain the results of the multivariate analyses that demonstrated that one of the independent prognostic factors is low Dukes stage.