Taşkin AK, Akar M, Turgut MS, Bilir B, Karademir E. Preoperative clinical and laboratory factors associated with early complications after low anterior resection: Exploratory analysis of the eosinophil/lymphocyte ratio. World J Gastrointest Surg 2026; 18(1): 114570 [DOI: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i1.114570]
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Ali Kemal Taşkin, MD, Department of General Surgery, University of Health Science, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital, Ataevler mh. Yılmaz Akkılıç cd. No. 8, Mavi İnci Konakları, Bursa 16010, Türkiye. alik8161@hotmail.com
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Taşkin AK, Akar M, Turgut MS, Bilir B, Karademir E. Preoperative clinical and laboratory factors associated with early complications after low anterior resection: Exploratory analysis of the eosinophil/lymphocyte ratio. World J Gastrointest Surg 2026; 18(1): 114570 [DOI: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i1.114570]
World J Gastrointest Surg. Jan 27, 2026; 18(1): 114570 Published online Jan 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i1.114570
Preoperative clinical and laboratory factors associated with early complications after low anterior resection: Exploratory analysis of the eosinophil/lymphocyte ratio
Ali Kemal Taşkin, Mustafa Akar, Mustafa Suphi Turgut, Burak Bilir, Enes Karademir
Ali Kemal Taşkin, Mustafa Suphi Turgut, Burak Bilir, Enes Karademir, Department of General Surgery, University of Health Science, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital, Bursa 16010, Türkiye
Mustafa Akar, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Health Science, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital, Bursa 16010, Türkiye
Author contributions: Taşkin AK wrote the original draft; Taşkin AK and Akar M designed the study and acquired funding; Taşkin AK, Akar M, and Turgut MS were responsible for developing the methodology; Akar M, Bilir B, and Karademir E participated in the formal analysis and investigation; Taşkin AK, Akar M, Turgut MS, Bilir B, and Karademir E participated in the review and editing.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Health Sciences University, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital (No. 2024-TBEK 2025/04-09).
Informed consent statement: The Ethics Committee of Health Sciences University, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital agreed to waive patient informed consent forms.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: The data can be obtained from the corresponding author.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Ali Kemal Taşkin, MD, Department of General Surgery, University of Health Science, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital, Ataevler mh. Yılmaz Akkılıç cd. No. 8, Mavi İnci Konakları, Bursa 16010, Türkiye. alik8161@hotmail.com
Received: September 23, 2025 Revised: October 12, 2025 Accepted: November 17, 2025 Published online: January 27, 2026 Processing time: 120 Days and 17.9 Hours
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Core Tip: This retrospective study, which included 105 patients with rectal cancer, evaluated the demographic, clinical, and preoperative laboratory data associated with early and late postoperative complications in patients who underwent low anterior resection (LAR) using two different surgical techniques (open and laparoscopic). For the first time, the significance of the preoperative eosinophil/lymphocyte ratio (ELR) on early postoperative complications was evaluated in this study; although this effect was found to be significant in univariate analysis, it was not found to be significant in logistic regression analysis. This result suggests that the relationship between the preoperative ELR and early postoperative complications in rectal cancer patients undergoing LAR should be investigated in prospective, well-designed studies.
