Table 2.

Surgical outcome of patients who underwent hepatic resections after propensity score matching

Surgical outcome	Subcuticular suture (n = 121)	Mattress suture (n = 121)	p-value
Postoperative complications, n (%)	17 (22.4)	18 (23.7)	0.847
Mortality, n (%)	3 (2.5)	1 (0.8)	0.313
Superficial incisional SSIs, n (%)	4 (3.3)	13 (10.7)	0.024*
Deep incisional SSIs, n (%)	3 (2.5)	1 (0.8)	0.317
Organ/space SSIs, n (%)	5 (4.2)	4 (3.3)	0.734
Postoperative hospital stay (day)	12 (5–124)	14 (5–172)	0.467

^*p < 0.05