Influence of Anastomotic Leak After Elective Colorectal Cancer Resection on Survival and Local Recurrence: A Propensity Score Analysis

Abstract

This matched-pairs analysis, comparing patients with colorectal cancer with and without anastomotic leakage, revealed no significant differences in overall survival, disease-free survival, and local recurrence rate. Contrary results in the literature might be caused by nonbalanced settings in nonmatched collectives. See Video Abstract at http://links.lww.com/DCR/A811.