Preoperative white blood cell count predicts anastomotic leakage in patients with left-sided colorectal cancer

• Masaki Morimoto ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: 2s.morimoto@gmail.com

  Affiliations National Hospital Organization, Yonago Medical Center, Yonago, Japan, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5937-4056

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• Kenjiro Taniguchi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation National Hospital Organization, Yonago Medical Center, Yonago, Japan

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• Osamu Yamamoto,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation National Hospital Organization, Yonago Medical Center, Yonago, Japan

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• Takuji Naka,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation National Hospital Organization, Yonago Medical Center, Yonago, Japan

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• Atsushi Sugitani,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation National Hospital Organization, Yonago Medical Center, Yonago, Japan

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• Yoshiyuki Fujiwara

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan

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