Treatment outcomes.

<p>Treatment outcomes.</p

Total hospital costs by skeletal muscle mass in sex-specific quartiles.

<p>The total hospital costs significantly decreased per skeletal muscle index sex-specific quartile (<i>P</i> = 0.029).</p

Total hospital costs stratified by the presence of low skeletal muscle mass per surgical treatment group.

<p>Major surgery included hepatic resections of at least two segments and a wedge resection or the resection of at least three hepatic segments, pancreatic surgery, and pelvic exenteration for locally advanced rectal cancer. Minor surgery included less than two hepatic segment resections and colorectal resections.</p

Total hospital costs stratified by the presence of low skeletal muscle mass per patient characteristic.

<p>* <i>P</i><0.05.</p

Multivariable linear regression analysis for the total costs per patient.

<p>Multivariable linear regression analysis for the total costs per patient.</p

Baseline characteristics.

<p>Baseline characteristics.</p