Table 6.
Spearman rank correlation coefficients of the relative increase of S100A8/A9 to those of WBC and serum amyloid A.
| Variables | PSI+/− | PNSI+/− | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | r | P value | N | R | P value | |
| WBC | 52 | 0.901 | 0.002 | 23 | 0.432 | 0.060 |
| Serum amyloid A | 44 | 0.58 | 0.01 | 30 | 0.438 | 0.064 |
PSI+/− (PSI, pain in the surgical intervention group), comprising subjects in whom acute abdominal pain remitted postsurgically, and PNSI+/− (PNSI, pain in the nonsurgical intervention group), consisting of those subjects who were acute abdominal pain remitted after nonsurgical intervention.