Fig 1.
CONSORT diagram.
Fig 2.
Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.
a. Overall survival. b. Recurrence-free survival.
Table 1.
Patients’ characteristics and histological findings.
Table 2.
Surgical outcomes.
Fig 3.
Follow-up to one year after surgery.
a. Change in body weight. *, p<0.05. b. Change in PNI. *, p<0.05. c. Change in BMI. BMI ≤ 18.5 kg/m2 is defined as “underweight”. POY, postoperative year. d. Incidence of reflux esophagitis.
Table 3.
Postoperative QOL assessment with PGSAS-45.
Table 4.
Univariate and multivariate analyses of risk factors for severe body weight loss.