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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2011 Mar 29;170(2):202–208. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.03.004

TABLE 3.

Incidence and Timing of SBOs for Open and Laparoscopic Assisted Procedures

No SBO (%) SBO at 1 year
post-takedown
SBO pre-
takedown
SBO early
post-takedown
SBO late
post-takedown
Operative
SBO
Recurrent
SBO
Open (n = 290) 248 (86%) 42 (14%) 21 (7%) 12 (4%) 9 (3%) 19 (7%) 6 (2%)
Laparoscopic (n = 100) 84 (84%) 16 (16%) 13 (13%) 1 (1%) 2 (2%) 6 (6%) 5 (5%)
P value N/A NS 0.17* 0.17* 0.17* NS NS
*

These three P values were calculated at the same time using a 2 × 3 table and Fisher’s exact test.