Infants Are More Likely Than Older Children to Have Surgery for Cervical Infections

Table 6

Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals.

Category	Odds Ratio	95 CI Lower Limit	95 CI Upper Limit	P-Value
Child < 1 yr old (infant) undergoing surgery	2.38	1.10	5.19	0.029
Child with lateral neck site undergoing surgery	4.12	2.14	7.93	<0.001
Child having at least 1 cm radiolucency on CT undergoing surgery	4.82	1.29	18.02	<0.001
Infant having a lateral neck site	2.66	1.30	5.47	0.008
Infant having at least 1 cm radiolucency on CT	0.63	0.15	2.55	0.514
Infant having at least 2 cm radiolucency on CT	1.07	0.47	2.44	0.865
Infant with lateral neck site undergoing surgery	2.275	0.89	5.82	0.086
Infant with at least 1 cm radiolucency undergoing surgery	3.00	1.01	8.94	0.048
Infant with lateral neck site and at least 1 cm radiolucency undergoing surgery	2.49	0.74	8.43	0.142

denotes significantly different at P = 0.05, Mantel-Haenszel statistic.