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Occurrence of surgical and medical complications after tracheostomy according to patients HNC status and urgency of operation (%)
| HNCa (n = 198) |
Non-HNCa (n = 57) |
p | Elective (n = 141) | Urgent (n = 114) |
p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical complications | 24 (12.1) | 8 (14.0) | 0.70 | 16 (11.3) | 16 (14.0) | 0.52 |
| Medical complications | 17 (8.6) | 2 (3.5) | 0.20 | 15 (10.6) | 4 (3.5) | < 0.05 |
aHNC head and neck cancer
