Table 3.

Postoperative wound management complications (WMC)

Complication	Group 1 NPWT	Group 2 Control	p value
Number of WMC, n (%)	3 (8.57%)	11(30.6%)	0.020
Surgical site infections (SSI), n (%)	2 (5.71%)	8 (22.2%)	0.046
Superficial SSI, n (%)	2 (5.71%)	4 (11.1%)	n/a
Deep SSI, n (%)	0	3 (38.8%)	n/a
Organ SSI 1, n (%)	0	1 (2.8%)	n/a
Hematoma, n (%)	0	3 (8.3%)	n/a
Seroma, n (%)	1 (2.9%)	1(2.8%)	0.984

Significant p-values were marked with bolded font