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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg. 2018 Nov 28;218(2):266–270. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2018.11.018

Table 3:

Summary of operative findings and outcomes.

Operative findings and outcomes All patients
(n=176)
CT missed bowel injury
(n=36)
No missed bowel injury
(n=140)
p
Operative approach
Laparotomy 163 (93%) 29 (81%) 134 (96%) 0.006
Laparoscopy 3 (2%) 0 (0%) 3 (2%) >0.999
Laparoscopy converted to laparotomy 10 (6%) 7 (19%) 3 (2%) 0.001
Days from admission to surgery 0 [0–1] 0 [0–1] 0 [0–1] 0.339
Identified adhesive disease 18 (10%) 10 (28%) 8 (6%) 0.001
Identified solid organ injury 104 (59%) 14 (39%) 90 (64%) 0.008
Missed on CT scan 6 (3%) 2 (6%) 4 (3%) 0.604
Identified mesenteric injury 60 (34%) 22 (61%) 38 (27%) <0.001
Missed on CT scan 24 (14%) 12 (33%) 12 (9%) <0.001
Identified bowel injury 50 (28%) 36 (100%) 14 (10%) <0.001
Partial thickness 23 (13%) 18 (50%) 5 (4%) <0.001
Full thickness 27 (15%) 18 (50%) 9 (6%) <0.001
Bowel resection or repair 53 (30%) 35 (97%) 18 (13%) <0.001
Non-therapeutic laparotomy 12 (7%) 0 (0%) 12 (9%) 0.130
Hospital length of stay (days) 10 [5–22] 13 [8–27] 9 [5–20] 0.029
Inpatient mortality 23 (13%) 3 (8%) 20 (14%) 0.419

Data are presented as n (%) or median [interquartile range].