Research Article
Factors Associated with Perforated Appendicitis in Elderly Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Table 3
Duration of time in perforated and acute appendicitis groups.
| | Perforated appendicitis
| Acute appendicitis () | value |
| Duration of pain in admission period | 48 (6–240) | 24 (2–96) | | <24 hours | 13 (12.6%) | 37 (35.9%) | <0.001 | ≥24 hours | 90 (87.4%) | 66 (64.1%) | Duration from pain to operation | 50 (8–241) | 27 (4–104) | | <24 hours | 11 (10.7%) | 35 (34.0%) | <0.001 | ≥24 hours | 37 (89.3%) | 46 (66.1%) | Duration from admission to operation | 6 (1–8) | 10 (9–12) | | >8 hours | 16 (15.5%) | 12 (11.7%) | 0.416 | ≤8 hours | 87 (84.5%) | 91 (88.3%) | Duration from arrival to imaging | 8 (1–24) | 6 (2–12) | | >6 hours | 78 (75.7) | 30 (29.1) | <0.001 | ≤6 hours | 25 (24.3) | 73 (70.9) |
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Value s are represented as numbers (percentages) and median (minimum-maximum). : value < 0.05 is statistically significant.
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