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Table 5 Summary of complications

From: Laparoscopic surgical staging for uterine malignancies using harmonic shears (UltraCision) in comparison to electrosurgery: operative technique, feasibility and complications

Complication n (%)

ELC group

US group

Total

Major

  Vascular injury

1 (2.7)

2 (2.4)

3 (2.5)

  Return to the operating room

0 (0)

1 (1.2)

1 (0.8)

  Transfusion

1 (2.7)

2 (2.4)

3 (2.5)

  Cystotomy

0 (0)

1 (1.2)

1 (0.8)

Minor

  Fever

2 (5.4)

1 (1.2)

3 (2.5)

  Inflammation of the obturator nerve

0 (0)

1 (1.2)

1 (0.8)

  Subcutaneous emphysema

1 (2.7)

0 (0)

1 (0.8)

  Intraoperative cardiac dysrhythmia

0 (0)

1 (1.2)

1 (0.8)

  Total n (%)

5 (13.5)

9 (11.0)

14 (11.7)