Table 1.

Enterotomy and Mortality Rates

Reference	Enterotomy (%)	Recognized Enterotomy (%)	Unrecognized Enterotomy (%)	Mortality (%)
Toy1	2/144 (1.4)	2 (1.4)	0	0
Kyzer2	2/53 (3.6)	2 (1.4)	0	0
Roth3	2/73 (2.7)	2 (2.7)	0	0
Chowbey4	0/202	0	0	0
Birgisson5	2/66 (3.1)	2 (3.1)	0	0
Moreno-Egea6	2/55 (3.6)	1 (1.8)	1 (1.8)	0
Parker7	2/50 (4)	2 (4)	0	0
Bageacu8	3/159 (1.8)	3 (1.8)	0	0
Ben-Haim9	6/100 (6)	4 (4)	2 (2)	0
Berger10	4/150 (2.7)	3 (2)	1 (0.67)	1 (0.67)
Aura11	0/85	0	0	0
Gillian12	3/100 (3)	3 (3)	0	0
Eid13	2/79 (2.5)	1 (1.25)	1 (1.25)	0
Chelala14	0/120	0	0	0
Carbajo15	10/270 (3.7)	9 (3.3)	1 (0.3)	0
LeBlanc16	2/193 (1)	2 (1)	0	0
Heniford17	13/819 (1.6)	12 (1.5)	1 (0.1)	0
Bower18	0/99	0	0	0
Sánchez19	0/85	0	0	0
Franklin20	5/369 (1.3)	5 (1.3)	0	0
Frantzides21	2/208 (1)	0	2 (1)	0
Holzman22	1/21 (5)	1 (5)	0	0
Park23	0/56	0	0	0
Ramshaw24	2/79 (2.5)	1 (1.25)	1 (1.25)	0
Carbajo25	0/30	0	0	0
DeMaria26	0/21	0	0	0
Zanghi27	0/11	0	0	0
Chari28	1/14 (14.2)	?	?	0
Robbins29	1/32 (3.1)	1 (3.1)	0	0
Wright30	5/87 (5.7)	3 (3.4)	2 (2.3)	1 (1.1)
Moreno-Egea31	0/11	0	0	0
Gonzalez32	0/32	0	0	0
Raftopoulos33	0/50	0	0	0
McGreevy34	1/62 (1.6)	0	1 (1.6)	0
Total all Patients	72/3925 (1.78)	59/3925 (1.50)	13/3925 (0.33)	2/3925 (0.05)
Total for Enterotomies Alone		59/72 (82)	13/72 (18)	2/72 (2.8)

The upper figures in the total are the results based on all of the patients. The lower figures are those resulting from the enterotomies alone.