Prognostic impact of postoperative intra-abdominal infections after elective colorectal cancer resection on survival and local recurrence: a propensity score-matched analysis.

In this matched-pair analysis comparing stage I-III colorectal cancer patients with and without postoperative intra-abdominal infections, postoperative intra-abdominal infections were associated with poor local recurrence-free survival, but not overall, cancer-specific free, recurrence-free, or distant recurrence-free survival.