Laparoscopic versus Open Complete Mesocolic Excision for Right Colon Cancer

Table 3

Postoperative data according to the surgical approach.

	Surgical approach				value
	Open surgery		Laparoscopic
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Pain scores	5.31	0.88	3.25	0.76	<0.001
Getting-out-of-bed time (days)	3.42	0.94	1.67	0.66	<0.001
First passage of flatus (hours)	100.48	11.63	56.77	9.51	<0.001
Time to resume liquid diet (day)	4.91	1.19	3.50	1.09	<0.001
Time of normal diet (day)	6.27	0.96	4.73	0.76	<0.001
Duration of hospital stay (day)	13.04	3.07	9.13	1.57	<0.001

value ≤0.05 is significant.