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Materials and Methods: We reviewed our database for colorectal surgery and collected data regarding right hemicolectomies performed over a period of 10 years regarding patient characteristics, operative outcomes and postoperative outcomes. We compared laparoscopic with open right hemicolectomies. All the anastomoses in the laparoscopic group were performed intracorporeally. Results: We included 384 cases, 74 (19.3%) laparoscopic and 310 (80.7%) open right hemicolectomies. Baseline characteristics were comparable between the two groups. Conversion rate was low (2.7%). A drain was placed more often in the open colectomies (p &lt; 0.001). Laparoscopic colectomies lasted longer by 25 min on average in the entire cohort (p = 0.002) and by 30 min in cancer-only cases without concomitant procedures (p &lt; 0.001). Laparoscopic procedures yielded more lymph nodes (p = 0.007), as well as longer distal resection margins (p &lt; 0.001) and total specimen (p &lt; 0.001). There was no difference between the two approaches concerning intraoperative complications (p = 0.36) or need for transfusion (p = 0.708). There was also no difference regarding overall (p = 0.361) or major complications (p = 1), as well as anastomotic leak (p = 0.475), surgical site infections (p = 0.275) or readmission rates (p = 1). Hospitalisation duration was shorter by 3 days after laparoscopic surgery in the entire cohort (p &lt; 0.001), as well as when cancer-only cases without concomitant procedures were considered (p &lt; 0.001). Conclusions: Laparoscopic right hemicolectomy with intracorporeal anastomosis provides perioperative safety and pathology outcomes comparable to open surgery, while significantly reducing hospital stay.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina62040655","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,30]],"date-time":"2026-03-30T13:40:52Z","timestamp":1774878052000},"page":"655","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Comparison Between Laparoscopic and Open Right Hemicolectomy Outcomes: A Single-Centre Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"62","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-8183-4408","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vasiliki","family":"Garantzioti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ioannis D.","family":"Kostakis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"George","family":"Theofanis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-8988-8124","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ioannis","family":"Maroulis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2392-2078","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"George","family":"Skroubis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"233","article-title":"Colorectal cancer statistics, 2023","volume":"73","author":"Siegel","year":"2023","journal-title":"CA Cancer J. 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