Influence of Bursectomy on Operative Morbidity and Mortality After Radical Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

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Kayaalp et al. [1] ask about the effects of combined resection of other organs on the complication rates and the operating time in the patient series we reported [2]. After dividing the patients in the study into two subgroups according to the presence of combined resection, the number of patients suffering from any complication was same in each group (three in each group among patients without a combined resection; 12 in each group among patients with a combined resection). Although the operating time was not similar between the bursectomy and the non-bursectomy groups, the differences did not show statistical significance in either subgroup (P = 0.101 among patients without a combined resection; P = 0.149 among patients with a combined resection), probably because of the small sample size. Likewise, there were no significant interactions between bursectomy and combined resection on these end points. …