Table 5.

Timing of radiological examination of the anastomosis and relaparotomy

	No. of patients	Median time interval in days (range)
Primary laparotomy—first imaging modality	91	7 (1–49)
Primary laparotomy—second imaging modality	24	12 (4–44)
Primary laparotomy—relaparotomy	42	7 (2–24)
2 clinical parameters—first imaging	82	2 (0–47)
3 clinical parameters—first imaging	65	1 (0–46)
4 clinical parameters—first imaging	38	0 (0–26)
Imaging—relaparotomy	42	0 (0–8)a
Negative imaging—relaparotomy	22	0 (0–8)a
Positive imaging—relaparotomy	20	0 (0–3)a

^aCalculated from second imaging (nine patients with both imaging modalities before relaparotomy)