Chronic Pain after Open Appendectomy and Its Effects on Quality of Life in Children Aged 8–18 Years

Table 2

Children characteristics according to chronic postappendectomy pain.

	Children without CPAP	Children with CPAP
Age	12.70 ± 3.1	13.24 ± 2.7	0.387
Scar length	5.87 ± 1.6	7.05 ± 1.4	<0.001
Gender
Boy/girl	85/44	12/17	0.014

CPAP, chronic postappendectomy pain; p, statistical error. Statistical significant. The data are presented number and mean ± SD.